Word: organization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mere pittance of 40 guineas ($200) a week, the Crown will rent sumptuous Craigwell House, in Aldwick Village near Bognor-on-Sea. A private beach, an electric organ, a private cinema-theatre, and hot & cold running salt & fresh water will be at His Majesty's disposal. Ap propriately enough, the owner is Sir Arthur Du Cros, President of Dunlop, Ltd., famed tyre makers, vaunters of the slogan: "As British As The Flag!" Dyspeptic persons addicted to taking Beecham's Pills espe cially rejoiced, last week, for Sir Arthur is also a director of "Beecham...
There is an act with two pianos on the stage, a very battered looking played by a young man with smooth hair and a very new one played by, it seems, an electric light socket. The organ complained the "St., Louis Blues" and one piano or the other would interrupt, as pianos will. The figures of Will Fyffe's salary were not announced...
...prosperous business when two rival gatherings in a dormitory tossed him coins, one paying him to "take the money and get the H--out," the other, "to play another tune." In spite of the apparent prosperity of his business, however, Joe denies that he is like other organ grinders who are reputed to own vast tracts of real estate. No, Joe is not a rich man,--so he says...
...shrill chants. These canaries were a special feature of the 40th show. One, worth $4,000, had died on reaching the show because his water and food had spilled en route from Cleveland. The canaries were judged mainly on their abilities to follow the tunes of a German water organ. Four shy canaries delayed the contest one day by refusing to whistle when they were expected...
...bogeymen with which the Soviet press scares Russians was added, last week,* a potent U. S. citizen 89 years of age, gaunt, and frail with parchment skin and eyes that seem always sunken behind dark-lensed spectacles. A searing editorial in Besbozhnik (The Godless), famed anti-religious organ of the Soviet State, revealed, as horrid fact, that 65.000 "Baptist Bibles" have recently been printed in Russia. Since someone must have paid for them, and since John Davison Rockefeller Sr. is rich, philanthropic and Baptist, Editor Shpitzberg of Besbozhnik pointed accusingly across the Atlantic at Rockefeller Sr., while indicating John Davison...