Word: organism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...China; whereas U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg again made clear at Washington last week, that the Coolidge administration is determined to avoid intervention in China. At Shanghai, British resentment prompted an article entitled "Washington Deserts Her Allies," in the North China Daily News, chief British news organ in China. Most injudiciously, the lurid caption of this article was displayed in the streets on placards. Chinese read, shuffled...
...mature fame but were "child prodigies" to start with. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart showed talent at 4, genius (in public) at 6, which was Josef Hofmann's age at his piano debut and Nellie Melba's when she first sang to Melbourne, Australia. Handel was skilled on the organ, Meyerbeer on the piano, Schumann at composing, Kreisler and Joachim on the violin, at 7. Eight-year-old Ottavio Gallo (above) has Bach and Paganini as precedents for his precocity. Chopin, Liszt and Rimsky-Korsakov were first famed as nine-year-olds. Mendelssohn, Schubert, Stravinsky and Boomfield-Zeisler waited until...
...think your paper is a wonderful organ and is worthy of great commendation, with one exception, and that is: you are such biased Republicans, so prejudiced always in your comments on the Democrats, that I would not take the paper at all, except at the request...
Last week the Christian Century, moderately liberal church organ but for the moment wrathful, without ambiguous language set out to examine the exploitation of childhood by religious zealots. Said this crusader...
...Moorish splendor upon the corner of Seventh Ave. and 50th St., in the backyard neighborhood of Broadway, otherwise asprawl with garages, night clubs, hotdog stands, pawn-jewelers. Inside it was golden-brown, well ventilated, pagan-like in its florid adornment. Three organists played in grand concert on a Kimball organ, which is said to have the properties of a symphony orchestra. Then came an invocation: "Ye Portals bright . . . unite us all to worship at beauty's throne." Then a dedication. All was solemn. The audience was awed. The "cathedral" looked every cent of its $10,000,000 advertised cost...