Word: originalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paloma, though once tremendously popular in Mexico, was written by a Spaniard who lived in Cuba, and both it and La Cucaracha are more Cuban than Mexican in rhythm. Today most of Mexico's music is Spanish in origin. But ancient instruments dug from Aztec tombs prove that Mexico was musical long before Cortez & his Spaniards conquered...
...Origin of the Nazi movement in the U. S. antedates the Hitler regime by ten years. In 1923 the Teutonia Society, patterned vaguely on Klan principles, was the biggest of a dozen or so similar groups whose members gave aid to the National Socialist Party in Germany throughout the late 20's. In 1933 these groups were merged as "Friends of New Germany," run by Heinz Spanknobel, a Nazi party member. Herr Spanknobel, indicted by a New York Federal Grand Jury for failing to register as the agent of a foreign nation, speedily fled to Nazi Germany...
Last week a nervous, finger-twiddling German dermatologist, Dr. Eugene Traugott Bernstein, 45 (now exiled in Manhattan), published in International Clinics a synopsis of his little-known medical subspecialty: curing skin troubles which are of psychic origin...
...made in a mile-long vacuum tube in California showed apparent fluctuations in the speed of light up to 12 mi. per sec. Physicists promptly raised a hue & cry, which was quieted when the fluctuations were ascribed to that old standby, "experimental error," or to "disturbing influences of unknown origin"-i.e., movements of the earth, the moon, the tides. More recently there has been talk of certain other "constants" which varied widely enough to be clearly detected, and also of the possibility that all the constants may vary in amounts too small or over a time too long to permit...
...Surrealism is partly Spanish in origin and its distinguished leaders include Parisian Spaniards like Joán Miró and Salvador Dali; 2) Artist Hayter went to Spain last year not on his own but at the invitation of the Leftist director general of Fine Arts, José Renau, who encouraged him to paint a score of flaming canvases with such titles as Man-eating Landscape...