Word: whims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enter the Press. Battling to oust Leader Baldwin are the two mightiest newslords in the empire. For sheer bawling blatancy, for staggering reversals of editorial policy overnight at the publishers' whim, for colossal nerve in pouring millions of pounds into the boldest circulation-grabbing schemes and for boundless ambition to rule the British Empire from the press rooms of Fleet Street, the newspaper chains of Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere are unique...
...observer watches a vast throng pushing through an amusement district. By the law of averages he knows that a certain proportion will attend one theatre, other proportions other theatres. But he cannot tell which person will enter any particular theatre. Many of the people themselves could not enlighten him. Whim or the pressure of the crowd might change their direction...
...impossible to synthesize fame; it is not a tangible thing, it can not be broken down into component parts and analyzed; it is a mere whim of mankind. Virgil laboring under the burden of a dead language and writing of things long since forgotten has generally been dismissed from modern thought, yet he left behind him one of the world's greatest epics, he wrote learnedly on bee keeping or politics, and he was a master of poetic technique. The corpse of his greatness has been briefly revived because two thousand years ago yesterday he was born...
...Oesterreicliische Musikerzeitung and honorary president of the Austrian Musical Association strongly declared for such a convention. "There is a terrible chaos in tuning," said he, "a regular musical anarchy. And all because one man in an orchestra . . . sets the A higher or lower to suit his own whim. Why, if any two orchestras, and the best ones at that, were suddenly brought together, they'd be out of tune! It's a ridiculous musical situation. ... It actually happened to Hans Richter? that when he complained of the tuning by a clarinettist the man answered, 'I'm all right...
...Haselbrunner would set up a rigid, whim-proof A and agree to abide by it. He would then have it pressed on phonograph discs for world distribution. He would broadcast it at intervals much as Greenwich Time is broadcast...