Word: organism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington suburb) where "Mother" Jones lay bedridden, boisterous. Among her pillows in the friendly home of Walter Burgess, she was ready for Death. She had arranged for her high requiem mass at St. Gabriel's Church in Washington, her interment at Mt. Olive, Ill. Still matriarchal, still organ-voiced, she said as her great anniversary approached: "A five-day week and a six-hour day would mean work for everybody. . . . I've had a lot of chance to think lately and the more I think, the more radical...
...past, Futurist Mayakovsky appeared triumphant at Leon Trotsky's right hand. Like Rudyard Kipling, with whom Russians compare him, Vladimir Mayakovsky was at his best as a war poet. More than six feet tall, hairy-chested, huge-voiced, he toured Russia with lean, shrill Trotsky, the organ- izing genius who created the Red Army -today largest on earth.-To the soldiers the statesman would speak in his curt, compelling voice. Then, towering up from nowhere, the poet would take the platform, roar out his latest barrack-room ballad, put fight into the then ragged troops who were battling...
Because suicide is almost the gravest sin in the rigid Communist code of political morals, the editor of Youth Pravda (news-organ of the Russian organization corresponding to Boy Scouts) found himself in a tight fix. His hero-worshipping young readers worshipped Vladimir Mayakovsky who had now greatly sinned. It was as though Chief Scout Lord Baden-Powell should sin. But the official poet laureate, Demian Bedny, saved the situation, announced as it were ex cathedra that the poet had shot himself while suffering from "temporary insanity," had died in honor, a proper hero for boys under 14. No mention...
Fraternities. "ln the eyes of many alert and progressive educators the fraternities stand today in a very serious and weak position. So far have they failed to cooperate or to live up to their possibilities and ideals that ... the fraternity has frequently been the most powerful organ-ized source of moral misbehavior on the campus...
Professor Davison has been presenting a series of concerts during the season not only at Harvard, but also at other colleges throughout the East His program for the afternoon follows: Prelude in G major Bach Fuge, Canzone und Epilog (Fis dur) for organ, women's voices and violin, "Credo in vitam venturi saeculi. "Amen," Karg-Elert Choral Prelude, "O Welt, ich muss dich lassen" Brahms Choral Prelude, "Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" Bach Fuge, Canzone und Epilog (Fis dur) Karg-Elert