Word: ans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Violinist Jascha Heifetz suggested that U. S. concert audiences should hiss whenever they feel like it: "American audiences are too standardized . . . too timid to express their real opinion of an artist.
. . . Some day when an audience has cooperated fully with me in giving a good performance, I am going to answer their applause for my concertizing by applauding them for good listening."
In an automobile collision at Azusa, Calif., Thomas Leo McCarey, cinema director (The Awful Truth, Ruggles of Red Gap), and Gene Fowler (born Eugene Devlan), journalist, author (The Great Mouthpiece, Timber Line, Illusion in Java), were burned by gasoline flames. Director McCarey had a fractured skull, Writer Fowler injuries to...
Twenty years ago, high up over Wall Street, an early-bird office boy named Martin Block used to tear a page off Owen D. Young's calendar every morning, turn on the office ozone machine, then listen to earfuls of advice (8:55 to 9) from the big boss...
But Martin Block decided that there must be better rackets than tearing off Mr. Young's calendar. He found he had a purling, pitchman-style voice that made people buy things. He bought an old Buick, installed a phonograph, a microphone and loudspeaker, parked it under the windows of...