Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white folk penetrate 200 miles into French Equatorial Africa to the settlement of Lambarene on the sluggish River Ogowe. Such strangers as do turn up there are mightily surprised to hear, among the night sounds of the jungle, an organ crashing out one of Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccatas and Fugues. Albert Schweitzer is no more famed as a man of God than he is as a man of music. Author of a two-volume biography of Bach, he is the world's No. 1 interpreter of the great German's organ music, which he has edited in five volumes...
...years, Schweitzer obtained from a French missionary society a tract of land at Lambarene, went there in 1913. As a present from friends he took with him into the wilds a piano stoutly constructed to protect it from the climate. The same friends later gave the missionary a small organ, the case of which had been carefully ant-proofed...
...Game of Names." The New York Post had only 60,000 circulation when David Stern bought it from Curtis-Martin year ago. The new owner tried to change the paper from a genteel, arch-Tory organ to a rowdy New Deal standardbearer. He succeeded mainly in making it a sensational hodgepodge. By fits & starts, the Post claimed to have 75,000 steady readers when it began its "Game of Names" contest last August...
...rich piece of "China Carpet," was the folio bible given by Andrew Oliver, class of 1724 and later Lt. Governor of Massachusetts. Records show that the Overseers had two pews at the back designed especially for their use. Over the "Great Door" at the West end was perhaps an organ gallery, evidences of which could be brought to light by careful search. The lighting was of course by candlelight, and in 1745 we find bills for "1 Doz. Tin Candlesticks" and "2 Wooden Screws for standing part of said Candlesticks...
...with you in Alaska?" The Royal Italian Ambassador. God bless him, looked up with a start and with a beautiful smile exclaimed: "Why Bob Belts, you god-damned old son-of-a-bilch, where the hell did you come from?" And the Mayor, his eyes sticking out like organ stops, again whispered in my left ear: "God Almighty! I'm not afraid of this guy any more, he talks the same language...