Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true Catholic Church . . . must include everyone through concentrating upon the inclusion not of the exclusive but of the excluded; and it must still be as it was in the beginning, the church of the underworld...
...fellow members, I know that of old, Cecilia and Seraphs were fascinated and men were enraptured; I know Timotheus, with magic strain, led rocks, trees and beasts to follow him; I know that the notes of Orpheus entranced them and enthralled the underworld and caused the gods to gaze thereon with envy, and I know that David drew from his harp a chord which swept the gloom from the brow of Saul and flooded Israel's palaces with music and laughter." (Applause...
...Last Edition was doomed to dislike by the newspaper commentators. It is a newspaper melodrama done without regard to verity. Possibly it is not so utterly unlike journalism as society pictures are unlike society, or Parisian underworld pictures are unlike Montmartre. Rich people and French cocottes have no opportunity and probably small inclination to complain, but not so the critics when they dislike the distorted version of their colleagues. Furthermore it was pretty stilted melodrama...
...operetta, well costumed and well sung. To serve this trade, an old romance, If I Were King, was dug up, dusted off and set to some particularly good music by Rudolph Friml. It is a story of France under Louis XI, when Francois Villon, poet and leader of the underworld, was presented with the throne for 24 hours. He loves a noble lady and he defies the force of hostile Burgundy encamped without the gates. The story seemed ideally suited to this type of entertainment; the characters generally suited, vocally and otherwise, to their assignments. Best of all were...
Mayor Hylan, incensed at having been driven off the public radio by Court injunction: "The traction and underworld sympathizers, growing- panicky at the crumbling of their walls of misrepresentation before the broadsides of hard facts which I have given to the people in the last few days, made crafty moves yesterday to muzzle essential information from reaching the people. L delivered an address over the municipal radio station pointing out that Mr. Walker as a State Senator and a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture had appeared privately as attorney for the -% meat packers, who had in their possession...