Word: originated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whispering campaign which had its origin among a group of Democratic businessmen in the South was set loose to crawl across the country. Some of the whispers: Willkie spends an hour every week having his hair marcelled. Willkie privately damns Labor...
...brassy dignity, an odd-looking contraption stood on the stage of Chicago's Orchestra Hall one night last week. It was a Schellenbaum (bell tree), an instrument of Moorish origin, looking like a brass Christmas tree hung with bells and horse tails. It is the only Schellenbaum owned by a U. S. orchestra. The Chicago Symphony, which got it as a gift from the late Composer Camille Saint-Saëns, trots it out rarely. But last week, when the Symphony began its soth season, its 36th under the still competent baton of stooped, white-haired old "Papa" Frederick...
...Nazi race-&-soil theories, affirms: "Japan is a land of gods. . . . Christianity offers a heaven of illusion and forces men to believe in Jesus Christ in the interests of the Jewish policy of world conquest. Such a belief would destroy Japan's policy. . . . Christianity, a device of Jewish origin which is encroaching on the Japanese spirit, must be eliminated...
Editorial content, compiled by Publicity Chief Charles Michelson, included a foreword by ex-National Chairman James A. Farley, a biography of Henry Wallace, essays on phases of the New Deal, the President's acceptance speech. Asked about the origin of The Book, which has burgeoned under many titles for almost 100 years, Editor Michelson snorted: "It's automatic, like the Jackson Day Dinner...
Sumner started his professional life as an Episcopal clergyman. But nine years after his graduation from Yale he went back there as professor of political and social science, started compiling a great mass of anthropological data which comprises the bulk of Folkways. In it he covered the origin and evolution of marriage and family, religion, government, abortion, infanticide, social codes, crime & punishment, slavery, patriotism and chauvinism, labor, wealth and 1,001 other facets of human society. Many surviving mores (a term he himself brought into common scientific usage) were irrational, often harmful, and he said so savagely...