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Most of us know Pietro, the handorganist, but few have heard Pietro, the pipe-organist. Yet both are masters in their respective fields...
...Quin often displays himself in interesting ways before the public. Sometimes he carries his lunch to his office. Again he is pictured with his almost-inseparable pipe. When he first campaigned for election he got himself a saddle horse and pair of saddle bags and rode about visiting the farmers in his district...
...cigarettes by soldiers and their increasing popularity among women, consumption mounted in an astonishing manner. On the other hand, the cigar business could no longer sell its products as cheaply as before the War, and its turnover and profits remained stationary or else declined. In recent months, pipe-smoking has been coming in again, and consequently manufactured tobacco is on the gain. One feature of the tobacco industry sometimes overlooked is the snuff business, which is also gaining in popularity. Little snuff is now inhaled through the nostrils in the old-fashioned way; instead its users, especially male and female...
...churches, clubs, societies, schools, colleges, universities, radio stations, municipal departments, rural organizations, industrial plants, department stores will cooperate in bombarding the people with a continuous blast of melody and rhythm-by voices, trained and untrained, in solos, in chorus, by all manner and combinations of instruments, mouth-organs, pipe-organs. There will be lectures on music, hundreds and hundreds of recitals and concerts, articles in newspapers and magazines, exhibits of musical books in libraries. If each and every citizen does not then realize that Music is a force to be reckoned with, it will not be the fault...
...America as in England. That the first part of this conclusion is justified has been obvious recently at Oxford-Harvard debates; the American is formal where the Englishman is personal. The present critic is correct, also, in his analysis. With the departure of the toddy-bowl and the clay pipe has gone the American student's tendency to foregather of evenings, and talk endlessly of shoes and ships and sealing-wax. And the pace is possibly faster in the American University than at Oxford or Cambridge...