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...your issue of April 3, one of your correspondents tells a story about a lovely long word invented by a scientist to represent "the complete sound caused by the sudden entry from above of a large stone into a deep pool." As a matter of fact the word pompholygopaplilasma (for that is the correct transliteration) was invented by the comic poet Aristophanes, and may be found at 1. 249 of his play The Frogs. It is made up of pompholyx which means a bubble, and paphlisma which means a frothing or foaming up. Hence the Aristophanic compound represents the sound...
...accredited foreign correspondents in Berlin. At the present time it includes about 135 men from 20 countries. Its president is Edgar Ansel Mowrer, who wrote last winter a shrewd analysis of the growth of reaction in Germany entitled Germany Puts the Clock Back. Last week President Mowrer called a sudden meeting of the Association. He reported that the German Government did not like his book. All sorts of wires were being pulled to force his resignation. Before returning to the U. S., Ambassador Sackett had called at the German Foreign Office and pointed out that seeking revenge on one newspaper...
Cuba's persistent restlessness brought murder and sudden death last week. In Santa Clara City somebody who disliked President Gerardo Machado planted a bomb in the Hotel Santa Clara. When it exploded it killed one Manuel Gonzales. 32, a Spanish salesman for lottery tickets. A small bomb exploded in front of a Havana tax office. A policeman reached the scene just in time to have his left hand blown off by a second, bigger bomb. At Guanabacoa a earful of men poured slugs from sawed-off shotguns into Military Supervisor Captain Oscar Pau, who had been accused of atrocities...
Composer Sowerby's Prairie, like Carl Sandburg's poem which inspired it, aptly describes the hush which enwraps the flat midwestern farmlands, the far-away burr of threshing machines, the climactic glow of a sudden sunset and the grey, momentous calm which follows. A few carping critics were inclined to credit Poet Sandburg with most of the inspiration but the sharpness of Sowerby's musical perceptions, developed now into a unanimously praised skill at orchestration, showed itself long before Chicago's red-headed organist had heard of Poet Sandburg. He was six years old, living...
...since the War has the British Press had a story quite so theatrical. It started month and a half ago with a sudden rush to buy sixpenny tickets for the Tower of London. Londoners in swarms learned that there was a real prisoner incarcerated in the Tower, held under the Official...