Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Social Christian Party of Adrien Arcand has found a happy home in Quebec. Leader Arcane! is publisher of Montreal's new Fascist party organ Le Combat National, editor of L'Illustration Nouvelle, semi-official organ of Premier Maurice Duplessis' Provincial Government, and his Jew-baiting, corporatist teachings have fallen on approving ears in Canada's most conservative spot. But Leader Arcand has long aspired to become a national as well as a provincial politician, so last week he scheduled Canada's first national Fascist convention for Kingston...
...horseback-riding, fencing, airplane-piloting, swimming, skiing Leader Mussolini, the traditional politician's ample paunch is evidence of a decadence not to be tolerated in his Party. Il Duce's news-organ Il Popolo d'Italia laid the law down recently: "Excessively fat members are undesirable in the Party ranks. . . . Their hearts, minds, nerves and muscles are all Fascist, but their bellies, no!" To Rome last week were ordered 45 special secretaries and inspectors of the Fascist Party. In the Forum Mussolini, with Il Duce watching, with pantherlike Fascist Secretary Achille Starace leading, the testees swam, jumped...
...Hammond Electric Organ, first marketed three years ago, is no larger than a piano, has no reeds or pipes. Pressing a key on the Hammond keyboard generates a minute electric current with an oscillation frequency corresponding to the pitch of the desired note. The current is relayed into a reproduction cabinet where it becomes a musical tone...
...mine in rehearsal in the Lyric Theatre in London, the time was supposed to change from the present to 1783, during a blackout. We were afraid the audience wouldn't believe in this. So Professor Wood installed for us, against the theatre's back wall, one organ pipe, height circa 40 ft., the biggest pipe that could be carted through traffic and in the stage door. Its purpose was kept a mystery. Wood's idea was that the lowest of all notes, subaudible, but vibrating the eardrum, would produce, on cue, a sensation indefinable but eerie...
Even now I draw a veil over what followed; there weren't enough people there for a proper panic; I chiefly remember Gilbert Miller's stentorian voice from the centre of the stalls demanding that so-and-so (the organ pipe, not Wood) be instantly thrown out; there were also comments reflecting upon Professor Wood and myself...