Word: george
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these things the late Don Francisco Aguilar knew. He had once made a study of the lute and its literature. He was further aware that Johann Sebastian Bach had written for it, that Georg Friedrich Handel as late as 1720 had made a part for it in his Esther. He remembered, too, that a Granadan. Baltasar Ramirez, had been the greatest lute virtuoso in 16th Century Europe; that the art of lute playing had supposedly died in 1790 with the German Christian Gottlieb Scheidler. Hence he listened with a peculiar appreciation to the music of the blind man. He went...
...precocious Berlin inventor who has belonged to the American Chamber of Commerce in Berlin since he was 15 (for inventing a table stove), averred that in four months he would fly through the cold, thin stratosphere. Professor Albert Einstein approved his plan on theoretical grounds. So did Count Georg Wilhelm Alexander Haus Arco, President of the Telefunken Co. (radio builders). So did professors at the Berlin Polytechnic Institute. So, in effect, did the enthusiastic New York Times which obtained and printed a long exclusive Perl interview...
...clinic at Klausenburg, Transylvania, a girl and a man were dying, last week's despatches related. An automobile had mashed her, Rosa Jancu, fatally. He, Georg Morar, had tried to kill himself by cutting. Her blood was the only blood at the clinic that matched his. To transfuse from her would probably kill her. So the surgeons listened to her heartbeats until they stopped of their own accord. The man's heart still pulsed faintly. Quickly the surgeons transferred blood from the dead veins to the living, probably the first transfusion of its kind. The man recovered...
...Solemnities of tone from orchestra, organ and choir sounded through the entire pageant. In the street outside a fire siren wailed. For more than a century and a half the Fassnacht family has dominated the Freiburg Passion Play, passing its privilege to its heirs. In Manhattan six Fassnachts appeared. Georg was a tragically mercurial Judas. Georg Jr. was Johannes. Amalie, Elsa and Augusta were respectively Mary, Mary Magdalene, the Blind Woman. Adolf, the eldest, gave to the Christus a grave presence, a tenor voice of such reedy purity and pliability that the German tongue seemed, in his mouth, no longer...
Almost a decade ago the Chicago Tribune, self-styled "World's Greatest Newspaper," ordered its correspondent in Moscow to present the following ultimatum to Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin: "You must abandon your censorship and guarantee freedom of expression, otherwise our correspondent will be withdrawn and so will the correspondents of other American newspapers, so that Russia will find herself without means of communication with the outer world." The rage into which Comrade Tchitcherin flew when he read these words was towering, to say the least. "The newspaper speaks to me," he stormed, "as if it were a government...