Word: organize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dictator Josef Stalin caused this blazingly frank statement to appear, last week, in the State news organ Pravda, "Truth...
...stopped walking at late twilight and went into the church. There were no lights on; no people were there to pray; the organ loft was empty. The tramp sat down and put his dirty finger on the keys, and there was music...
...Springfield, N. Y., William Morgan drove past the Methodist Episcopal church, heard organ music. William Morgan knew that no church service was scheduled for that hour, so he stopped his car, tiptoed into the church and peeked at the tramp who was playing hymns. Then William Morgan went off to find the minister of the church and a policeman...
When the three men came back, the church was silent again. They found the tramp lying in the organ loft, asleep, wrapped up in a uniform that some fake Santa Claus had worn for Christmas. They spoke to the tramp to wake him up, then arrested him for playing the church organ. He said that his name was William Nolte, that his age was 23, that he had been living in the church for a month, that he had once attended Sunday School there...
...play on the midnight before -full 20 hours in advance. When flesh and blood can stand no longer, the queue folk rent camp stools from hucksters for a few pence each. Then, lest they topple in exhaustion from the stools, they fling several more coppers to street artists and organ grinders who essay to keep the queue awake. Finally standees and sittees dose themselves with coffee sold by vendors who cry loudly the first Hottentot syllable, "hot . . . hot . . . HOT!" Last week Edward of Wales commented sympathetically upon London theatre queues in addressing the Old Playgoers' Club, a cozy, clannish...