Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year when Artur Bodanzky resigned as German opera conductor of Manhattan's Metropolitan, his successor was immediately announced to be one Joseph Rosenstock of Wiesbaden. Few had ever heard of such a person, all marveled that a comparative unknown was to fill the most important post in the world's most important operatic organization...
...tender lyric lines to caress, wrested no deep significance from the great human comedy. Many kind critics suspended all judgment until further hearing. The stranger was young, his debut was an ordeal. But stern fellows like Oscar Thompson of the Evening Post and Richard L. Stokes of the Evening World wasted no words. For Critic Thompson it was "the most ragged and perfunctory Meister singer of many seasons...
Known to the western world chiefly through Rudyard Kipling's story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," Herpestes griseus (or mungo) is a dingy grey-brown rodent about 30 inches long including a pointed tail. When excited, its long stiff hairs stand erect. This bristling hair, together with thick skin, is one of the mongoose's protections against the fangs of serpents. Contrary to hearsay, the mongoose is not immune to snakebite except by dint of its intuitive agility. With uncanny timing it dodges thrust after thrust of the serpent, gradually exhausts its enemy, then darts in, bites the nape...
...Tail Waggers' Club grew out of a drive made a year ago in England by the Royal Veterinary College. President of the world organization is The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Chesterfield...
...Author. Biologist John Scott Haldane, 69,* brother of the late Richard Burdon Viscount Haldane (onetime Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain), was born in Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of New College, Oxford, Honorary Professor of the University of Birmingham. Outside the academic world, he has studied mining, scientific diving and the fetid depths of factories, has written on respiration, air analysis, ventilation...