Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tobacco smoke. But in compensation, the orchestra plays Strauss as Strauss is seldom played. It plays other things also to stir the elemental passions of the Vagabond. Handel, Ravel, Victor Herbert and all the others that make music most palatable to the laymen. And a final inducement is the organ. It is not advertised as "mighty," the Vagabond is not called upon to sing "Love For Sale" as he listens to it, nor is he subjected to the strident tones of the woman next to him as she sings. This organ does what every self respecting organ should...
Editor Stockbridge has been a newsman and author for 37 of his 60 years, is well known to journalists throughout the land. About two years ago he was engaged by Publisher John Holiday Perry to edit The American Press. That magazine had been a house organ of the American Press Association, a feature service for country weeklies, until The Fourth Estate was bought and merged with Editor & Publisher. Then Publisher Perry made it a general monthly magazine of the trade...
...Longworth was the gay, garrulous bon vivant whom Washington officialdom knew and loved best. About him in his Massachusetts Avenue home his friends constantly gathered informally. A thorough musician (he had a standing order for new compositions from the Library of Congress), he would play on the violin, the organ or the piano. Then he would sing old college ballads, sentimental ditties or long songs for men only. His favorite stories were Elizabethan. He maintained active membership in the Royal & Joyous Fellowship of Elbow-benders. He doted on doggerel. Example...
...giant lies in the rich Oklahoma City field, now under strict proration. Last week Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. threatened to reopen this wound by seeking an injunction against proration in the field. Often Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair has been accused of leading the price-cutting. Last week his house-organ, the Sinclair Reflector, asked "Who Killed Cock Robin?" and answered that the big oil companies did it by bootlegging oil at cheap prices. "Sinclair did not stoop to subterfuge or practice evasion," said the Reflector...
Little Tyrolese children in the neighborhood of Kufstein will think that many a thunderstorm is brewing next summer, if thunderstorms mean to them that God is rolling barrels around in the sky. An organ whose echoes will be heard for miles around the valley is to be installed on the great rock of Geroldseck as an Austrian War Memorial. Contributions taken throughout Germany and Austria have paid for the building of the great instrument which will have 1,735 pipes rising above what will appear to be a miniature keyboard set 330 feet lower down on the rock...