Word: aaron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, Sarah Lutkin came home to the apartment where she lived with her husband and two terriers. When she knocked, no one answered, no small dog ran barking and sniffing to the threshold. When she forced an entrance, she found Aaron Lutkin dead, asphyxiated by the gas which he had purposely turned on. Beside him lay the terriers, Jennie and Pete, dead also...
Carl Laemmle, Samuel L ("Roxy") Rothafel, Harry M. Warner, Adolph Zukor; Musicians Ernest Bloch, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Mischa Levitski, Nikolai Sokoloff; National Benefactors Julius Rosenwald, Aaron Sapiro...
...Ford's page. These bits of philosophy (collected in a volume called Ford Ideals) were reported as prompted, if not actually penned, by Mr. Ford. Latterly The Dearborn Independent suggested one idea to many a U. S. mind-anti-Semitism. Its columns carried Jewish articles which culminated in Aaron Sapiro's suit on Mr. Ford for $1,000,000. Immense publicity was thrust on the magazine. The vigor of its warcries caused its banishment from public libraries in Portland, Me., Paterson, N. J., St. Louis, Detroit, Toledo, Cincinnati. Chicago and Columbus, 0., forbid its newsboys...
...equal Stokowski but he proved, by the thorough excellence of his performance, that the Philadelphia Orchestra was more than a tool for the musical genius of one man. In a hodge-podge of Handel, Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and Saint-Saens, the first was the best. Beside the Firework-Music (written so long ago as 1749 to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle) Stravinsky's virtuosity seemed pale, Copland's Scherzo, flimsy. Pianist Josef Hofmann gave the evening a special glitter by an interpretation of the C Minor Concerto which was more profound than Saint-Saens'music...
...discovery of manna by the Israelites occurred on the 16th day of the second month after leaving Egypt, in the wilderness of Sin, between Elim and Sinai. Hungry, they had grumbled at Moses, Aaron and Jehovah. Moses and Aaron conferred and announced to the Children that the Lord had promised to "rain bread from Heaven." Towards sunset, the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud to repeat the promise. "At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread...