Word: organism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulletins on the day's egg output in the sonorous language of Cicero. Today there are 1,500 acres around the 220-ft.-long house at Mount Hope and the tax assessment is one of the two highest in Massachusetts. Placid, meticulous Mrs. Prentice has a great pipe organ, gives elaborate musicales. A corps of geneticists and laboratory workers is constantly in residence, juggling the genes and chromosomes of 10,000 mice. Friends and admirers say that Mr. Prentice's unique achievement could never have come about had he not been rich enough to finance it, inquisitive...
...journalistic detective work with the help of Stuart Erwin, he finally wrings a confession from a scoundrel of society and then completes the job by marrying Miss Bennett at four in the morning. All very nice, if it weren't followed quite so soon by Arthur Martel at the organ...
Bellwether of the Italian Press is Benito Mussolini's Popolo d'ltalia, house organ of Fascismo. Behind it trail a flock of "semiofficial" newspapers, potent among which is conservative La Stampa, published in Turin by the man who builds four of every five automobiles in Italy, Senator Giovanni Agnelli. Proud old Senator Agnelli takes his journalism as seriously as he takes his Fiat automobiles...
...Moscow the Press denounced the sitting business as "A BREACH OF INTERNATIONAL DECENCY," then printed all week furious threats to Japan, Germany and every other nation with which the Soviet Union might find itself at war. Roared Pravda, official organ of the Party: "History is working in our favor, and know ye, Mister Imperialist, that if you impose war on us we will fight, not on our territory, but on yours...
...wine labels. Her "flying" songs come from England, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Russia, Finland, Japan. The oldest is "The Balloon," sung in London in 1782. Most famed is "Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine" (1910). But not to be scorned is "The Air Ship Waltz for Piano or Organ" (1891), dedicated to the Married Ladies' Musicale of Greensburg, Ind., or "Take Me Down to Squantum, I Want to See Them Fly," composed especially for the Boston Aero Meet of 1912, or "Since Katy, the Waitress, Became an Aviatress...