Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fame of the Eagle, the Times is unknown outside of Brooklyn. Yet the circulations of both papers are around 100,000. It was not always so. When the late Carson C. Peck, vice president of F. W. Woolworth Co., bought it in 1912, the Times was the small neighborhood organ of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. (An early editor was William Cullen Bryant.) Mr. Peck acquired it because he was approaching the Woolworth retirement age of 60 and wanted something to do. At the same time the Eagle was practically the daily Bible of Brooklyn's quiet, aristocratic, somewhat provincial...
...Rochester Civic Orchestra. To Rome, London, Paris, Stockholm and Brussels he gave million-dollar dental & throat clinics. His private interests included art, music, big game hunting (in Africa, with the Martin Johnsons), calendar reform. He whittled, baked cakes & pies, collected orchids and firearms, was awakened every morning by pipe organ. He never married...
...planned to come while college is still in session before the spring vacation, and will be held on four successive days beginning Monday, March 21, at 12.10 o'clock. In order to accomodate students with classes up to 12 o'clock, the services will be preceded by an organ prelude until 12.10 o'clock, and will end promptly at 12.30 o'clock...
There is an agreeable atmosphere about the R.K.O. Keith theatre that lends itself to the enjoyment of the films projected; Leo Weber plays enthusiastically upon the organ, the latest news events and well-selected short subjects are regular features of the program. This week Mae Clark, the appealing blonde who plunged backward out a window away from brutal newshawks, in "The Front Page," and Lewis Ayres, the sensitive and rather bewildered German boy of "All Quiet on the Western Front," play in "Impatient Maiden." But whether the fundamental cause be economic, or merely a reflection of a drabness peculiar...
...Irish Press, organ of Eamon de Yalera who has just won the Irish election (TIME, Feb. 29), accused President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State last week of plotting to remain in power by a military coup d'état. That he was so plotting the President hotly denied. Nothing short of a coup d'état could keep Victor de Valera from becoming President by legal vote of the Dail, agreed Irishmen last week. Englishmen have been saying that "de Valera's hands will be tied." Even as President, he would have a majority...