Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victory is his habit?the happy warrior?Alfred E. Smith," came the last words, then the crashing applause. Puffing hard at his cigar, Alfred E. Smith left the room. He returned later and did a few waltz steps to the broadcast blare of East Side, West Side. That evening's statement-to-the-press, not strictly accurate, was: "I heard Franklin Roosevelt and the demonstration and enjoyed them both...
...eager are the trial-goers that many stand in line all night to obtain small pink tickets good for one day only. Every syllable of the grim proceedings flashes over all the Russias by radio broadcast. Cinema cameras whir at intervals. Flashlight powders occasionally blaze and boom. Fifty Russian and Asiatic correspondents keep 28 telegraph lines busy. Delegations of spectators pour in, daily, from provincial Soviets, plump down on especially reserved benches and marvel at their surroundings...
...International Conference for the Investigation of Vivisection to flay the medical profession. They inveighed against the practice of cutting open innocent little animals or filling them with nasty diseases. Said Charles Edward Russell, famed radical author and winner of the 1928 Pulitzer prize for Biography: "I suggest that we broadcast to the public a pamphlet challenging the American Medical Association directly. The doctors won't meet us in a hearing because they're afraid to bring the question in the open. Vivisection has never revealed anything of the slightest value to medical science...
...Chilton, England, the Rev. E. P. Gough, rector of a nearby parish, found a church, buried beneath a rubbish pile. Disregarding the symbolical nature of his discovery, he immediately broadcast news of it together with interesting details. The church had apparently been built in the days of Roman occupancy of Great Britain; in it, it seemed probable, St. Augustine had initiated bearded and barbarous tribesmen into fellowship with a kind, mysterious and splendid God. During the lapse of savage centuries, the little church had become overlaid with dust; when found, it was covered 14 feet deep with the refuse...
...feature scenes of "Hassan" and the musical accompaniments to the Hindu and Nautch dances will be broadcast from WBZ, the Statler Hotel radio station between 8.30 and 9 o'clock Wednesday night, according to a recent announcement made by the club officers...