Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Meanwhile, in the Middle West, white-haired Frederick Stock had been conducting the Chicago Symphony orchestra in the same methodical way for 35 years. Conductor Stock had never tried to create sensations, never toured Europe or South America, never made movies or interested himself in international politics. He had stuck in his own Chicago back yard for so long that music-lovers in big Eastern cities nearly forgot about him, certainly never mentioned his orchestra in the same breath with Toscanini's. But Conductor Stock stuck to his knitting, and the Chicago Symphony stuck to Conductor Stock. Its strings...
Last fortnight the paths of the Chicago and the Philharmonic orchestras crossed. Frederick Stock took his men to Manhattan for a couple of concerts in Carnegie Hall, and John Barbirolli took his Philharmonikers to Chicago. Result was a two-way surprise. Expecting something special, curious Chicagoans turned out in droves to hear the famous Philharmonic. When they heard it their enthusiasm cooled like untouched soup. Shrugged the Journal of Commerce: "There can be no question about the superiority of our own orchestra's huge refulgent tone." Said the Tribune: "The Philharmonic simply does not coalesce into a satisfactory ensemble...
Meanwhile Manhattanites, who were prepared to dismiss Frederick Stock's orchestra with kindly condescension, got the jolt of their symphonic season. Admitted the Post's Critic Samuel Chotzinoff: "In the balance between its choirs the Chicagoans conform to the best standards set by the country's major orchestras." Crowed Critic Thomson: "Mr. Stock won his audience ... as he has won audiences for 35 years, by playing them music very beautifully, not by wowing them." At last week's end, the traveling Philharmonikers were still on the road. But back in Manhattan worried directors were sadly pondering...
Billed as "the handbook of this great crusade of our time," Mr. Bernays' book reprinted the Bill of Rights, summed up Mr. Bernays' answers to the stock arguments of democracy's detractors, instructed democrats in how to heckle for democracy, speak up in their organizations, get newspaper space and radio time, write to the President and Congressmen...
...Diesel bee was buzzing in Germany, France, Belgium, England. Patent deals in Germany and Great Britain netted Rudolf Diesel royalties of 70,000 marks a year. In addition, a German company paid him a lump sum of 1,250,000 marks plus a block of stock. Diesel moved his family into a lavish apartment, then into a lavish house in Munich, began pouring his money into oil and real-estate speculations. Most of these turned out badly. Lawsuits popped. The inventor's health began to crack, but he labored on, propping his strength with bromides and antipyrin...