Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into our party the very best traditions of the pre-War socialist movement.... We expected to write soon that he had gone to prison because of his loyalty to the cause of the workers. . . . But death does not release its prisoners." Editor Linson of the Chinese Nationalist Daily, news organ of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party), wrote: "We are very sorry that such an able man as C. E. Ruthenberg leaves us so soon." Editor Olgin of the Hammer eulogized: "He looked like a rock. ... Of iron was his logic. Of iron was his will...
...city solicitor. But last week the orchestra, ''in preference to entering a religious controversy," canceled its own plans, explaining 1) tha Sunday had been chosen for the concerts because most of the civic musicians were employed by theatres on week days; 2) that the prevalence of organ recitals, park band concerts and radio jazz on Sundays in Pittsburgh, against which there had been no organized protest, had seemed to indicate that Sunday symphony concerts might be no more pernicious. Few Pittsburghers stopped to consider that a Beethoven symphony or even a Debussy suite might contain more...
Since these remarks flatly contradict the maxim of Mussolini: "'Nothing outside the State! Nothing against the State!" the Vatican news organ, Osservatore Romano, sought next day to soften the Pope's rebuke to Mussolini. The editor ingeniously declared that President Coolidge and Premier Mussolini both "are agreed on the principle of the pre-eminence of spiritual things." From Mr. Coolidge was quoted: "Religion is necessary"; but the nearest similar remark which could be quoted from Mussolini was of very different purport: "Youth must be brave, honest and upright...
...illumination of the auditorium should be gradually reduced from the rear to the front and all light sources so modified as to prevent glare, especially those which may fall within the spectator's range of vision. A faulty shade leaking a little light in the orchestra or over the organ will be a source of annoying glare for even though the intensity of the reflected light from the screen may be much greater, the direct light by reason of the dark background will by contrast be blinding in effect and harmful...
Thus howled, last week, the Royalist organ L'Action Française. Its editor, Léon Daudet, son of Alphonse Daudet, whose Letters from My Mill breathe such quietude, seemingly had written amok. For this there was some excuse. Only the day before His Holiness had placed L'Action on the index ex-purgatorius, had banned it to most of its royalist subscribers who are Roman Catholics...