Word: organized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those stately lectures which high British officials now and then condescend to give to an irreproachable organ like the New York Times was scrupulously mirrored in its pages last week: "With thrones toppling in Europe or being in subjugation to a dictatorship, it was the opinion of advisers to the throne that King George and Queen Mary were the perfect exemplars of British constitutional monarchy. . . . King Edward, however, has chosen to go his own way. . . . This has given rise to a considerable amount of bitterness and has split high society into two sections. . . . Mr. Simpson regards the friendship...
...original scores of classics. To this end she imported last week 235 lb. of old music from Austria to Manhattan. Born Gabriella Pessl in Vienna 27 years ago, daughter of one of Europe's foremost beauticians, "Yella" Pessl forsook the cosmetic industry, studied the piano, then the organ, and finally began to explore the possibilities of the harpsichord and the clavichord. To combine her three interests of mountain climbing, skiing and music, this dark-eyed, energetic young woman carries a portable clavichord on her back on Austrian outings. This summer, be nighted at a Tirolean inn, Yella Pessl...
...York Woman in which a spade was called a shovel thus: "While the outcome, no doubt, will be a victory for the Throne, the King, quite evidently, is the most helpless of creatures, a man over 40 who has fallen desperately in love." The New York World-Telegram, leading organ of the nation-wide Scripps-Howard chain, followed this with front-page pictures six inches high of Queen Mary and Mrs. Simpson side by side-the Scripps-Howard story being that Her Majesty "disapproves of the King's open friendship for American-born" Mrs. Simpson and has taken...
...number of cancelled subscriptions spelled death for the Magazine. He has been treating the readers of the S. R. L. for two or three years now, to excellent although infrequent reviews of headline books. As editor there are possibilities before him which may make the Saturday Review a critical organ without parallel in this country...
...Last week one of his colleagues. Judge William Heston of Detroit, boasted that, with no expensive advertising expenditures, his Michigan Memorial Park ''has received more publicity week after week than any other Detroit institution with the exception of the Detroit Tigers." Since Judge Heston built a loud organ in his cemetery, ''anyone driving within a radius of four or five miles of our Park hears this beautiful music floating through...