Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seemed to want very much to rub the tip of his nose, now healing under a brown coat of iodine from the wound inflicted by a mad Irishwoman (TIME, April 12). The correspondents reported that, as often as Signor Mussolini's finger drew unconsciously near the afflicted organ, his iron will caused him to drop his hand-no mean feat, as all whose noses have itched can testify...
...others must refrain from seeing it from any angle. "Hatracket" will arise whenever Bostonians find their bucolic boundaries crossed by realism or by candor. And the same race which maintains the limits of Boston culture will frown upon those who jibe at the rouged tip of its saintly nasal organ even as they add more millions to those already heaped upon the altars or Bernar McFadden...
...appreciative fingers. It was the first concert given with the Rodman Wanamaker collection* of rare Italian violins, violas and cellos, in the auditorium of this Manhattan store. Alfred Casella, famed Italian composer, musicianly, masterly, led the string orchestra picked from the New York Philharmonic,' Dr. Alexander Russell played the organ; Josef Szigete, Hungarian violinist, played on the famed "Chant du Cygne" made by Stradivarius in 1737, when he was 93, Saint-Saens' "Le Cygne"; played it cleanly, limpidly; let no unwanted sentiment blur its colors...
From the very opening when the sopranoes impose their superb planissimo upon the undertone of the bass viols, through the great organ chords of the fifth chorus and the magnificent climaxes of the sixth to the stately Maestroso of the final chorus which dies away in the beautiful counterpoint between the sopranos and tenors, Brahms shows himself as one of the very greatest of molodic composers...
...Fascist organ L'Impero cried: "The Mussolini-Stresemann tilt was a dialog between an Eagle and a Crow?an encounter between Rapier and Paunch...