Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goebbels. Offsetting the ousting of Gumbel, the Hitlerites had their quickest wit, their loudest mouth closed up for a week. By government order Der Angriff, Nazi organ, was suppressed for "inciting to disobedience and resistance against the State." Editor of Der Angriff is Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, a gnomelike little man with a tart tongue and a club foot, who appeared from nowhere about two years ago, rapidly rose to be Fascist deputy, editor of the party organ and one of the right-hand men of Adolf Hitler. Herr Hitler attended Dr. Goebbels' wedding last winter. Fortnight ago when...
...found that Federal economy measures have reduced his retirement pay from $20,000 to $10,000 a year. To the Broad Street office of Richard Whitney, President of the New York Stock Exchange, went bald, spindly Author Chester Werntz ("Chet") Shafer, Grand Diapason of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, nonsensical organization of men who, as youngsters, used to pump wind for church organs. Grand Diapason Shafer wanted to consult Pumper Whitney about two shares of Burma Corp. Ltd. ("Burma Lead") which he had bought at $5.50 for the Guild on a "hot tip" in 1929. Last autumn when...
...stranger. Next time the protein appears the wary cells have an oversupply of enzymes and destroy too many protein molecules at once. The blood cannot carry off the waste products fast enough. Consequently some part suffers-nose, eyes, skin. The other theory presumes that the sufferer has an unidentified organ in his body which manufactures substances called reagins. Those reagins appear in the blood. Whenever a substance (pollen, food, etc.) appears which unites with a specific kind of reagin, that sets up a reaction in a "shock organ" (nose, eyes, bronchi, etc.). Whichever theory is correct, and proponents of neither...
While Chico and Harpo were playing pianos, Groucho was developing his soprano voice. Confirmed in the Jewish faith at 13, he became a choir boy in a Manhattan Episcopal Church, quit when punished for puncturing the organ bellows with an alto's hatpin. He learned to tap dance. His mother persuaded her friend Ned Wayburn to get him a job in a Gus Edwards act (where famed Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Georgie. Price. Walter Winchell received their histrionic training). When Groucho was 14, he went to Denver to be boy soprano in a trio. Soon after he arrived...
Editorially Col. Knox has made the paper fresher, breezier, has gone after the newsstand buyer with pretty-girl pictures and sports news on front and back pages. Also, he has made it a loyal Administration organ...