Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides, the slip of the tongue is to the radio broadcast as the typographical error is to the printed page. To paraphrase, it is hard to teach an old speechmaker new verbal tricks, or to accustom him to an accepted pronunciation when he has been in the habit of using another. And as the radio magnifies so many things, it magnifies these mistakes. Some peculiarities in the mouths of celebrated persons have become so famous that the speaker dare not change them without risking the charge of affectation. In this connection, a famous speaker whose "raddio" was a standing subject...
Only a decade ago Sibelius' cold water was considered a drink for connoisseurs to sip. But of late the public taste for his invigorating music has reached the proportions of thirsty demand. In 1935 a poll of the Columbia Broadcasting System's U. S. and Canadian listeners gave him first place in popularity (Beethoven was second) among all composers, past and present. This autumn Manhattan's Radio City MusicHall Conductor Erno Rapee unhesitatingly undertook to broadcast Sibelius' entire set of seven symphonies. The Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra play them far oftener than the once-popular...
...clock. National broadcast over the Columbia Broadcasting System with speeches by Senator Ernest Lundeon, Nathaniel Peffer, Payson F. Wild, assistant professor of Government, and William Hancock...
Fortnight ago plain-speaking General Hugh Samuel Johnson was prepared to broadcast to the nation an address on "Public Enemies 1 & 2-the two Social or Venereal Diseases called Syphilis & Gonorrhea." When his time came to speak, General Johnson simply growled to an estimated 17,000,000 NBC listeners...
Last week, to avoid imputations of unhealthy prudery, NBC did broadcast a speech on the same topic by Dr. Morris Fishbein, spokesman and editor of the American Medical Association. The Fishbein speech, therefore, offered an example of what is now considered the proper phraseology in which social diseases may be discussed on the air. Excerpts...