Word: organism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most significant was the fact that German Catholics at once rallied to the daring German Protestants. "We Catholics cannot afford to sit coolly or gloatingly by." declared the Catholic organ Germania. "This anti-religious new heathenism is on a much lower level, even, than pre-Christian heathenism, which at least honored its gods and was in this sense pious...
...writing finis to the capitalistic regime as now conceived-creating the best conditions and the most work possible. . . . It is not necessary to confuse private initiative with private ownership! Private property cannot and should not be abolished! But in the great industries . . . I regard the corporazione as the organ which will control...
...Mendelssohn and Chopin her fingers traveled over the keys with such speed and accuracy that the audience rushed forward for the encores to see just how she did it. Few people noticed a bald, dark-skinned little man who sat half-hidden behind the Town Hall organ watching her play her encores with Svengali-like intentness. He was her father who might have been a concert violinist if the War had not intervened. When Ruth was 2 he bought her a $10 toy piano. She wanted a "big one." He sold a diamond ring...
...horseplay. The best thing in the whole program, despite its incongruity and questionable taste, is a solo rendition of the Ave Maria by Stuart Churchill, tenor of merit. There are some boop-o-doop girls and some bird imitators. The festive evening is rounded out with an inconceivably asinine organ solo, with words on the screen about the relative merits of Jamaica Plain and South Boston as places to call home. It all ends with a cheer for dear old Boston...
...Loeb, gives Wintergreen the notion of starting a Blue Shirt revolution when he leads a band of grimy Union Square radicals ("We Seldom Fill Our Stomics, But We're Full of Economics") in song: Down, down with the House of Morgan! We'll blow up the Roxy organ! Down with novelists like Zola! Down with pianists who play "Nola!". . . We will make all tyrants shiver. Down upon the Sewanee River! Happiness will fill our cup When everything is down that's up! With plenty of blue shirts already on hand, the revolution is not hard to start...