Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plea of a respected and respectable maiden lady against the humiliating abuse of her name. Born in the good old days when the children of the family were called Charlie, Maisie, Frankie and Johnny, I was christened Frances but called Fanny. What has been my consternation and embarrassment to hear this name constantly misused, particularly at present by a noisy neighbor calling to her recalcitrant child, "Frederick H. Jr., come in at once or I shall spank your little Fanny!" I shall be glad, indeed, to serve as Regional Secretary for a chapter of a Society for the Prevention...
Days in Court will be many indeed, hearings on a two-per-week basis have been scheduled into April, providing for "days in court" for 275 claimants. At that rate it will take 15 years to hear the "heirs." To make this unlikely the court has distributed a complicated questionnaire to fill out which asks for such information as the full name and place of marriage of the one of Henrietta Garrett's 16 great -great -grandparents through which the claimant's relationship to her is asserted. Already 280 "common ancestors" have been put forward...
Last week's audience, flocking to hear what the Russian would do with their Philharmonic, found him as objective a conductor as he is composer. Leading off with a little-known Weber overture, he made its Chinese theme sound clear and precise. Stravinsky has always sneered at "interpretation." His complete lack of it froze many a listener's heart. He conducted with the sharp, exact beat of a metronome, like that instrument seemed indifferent to the gallery...
...always when Dancer Uday Shankar of India returns to New York, a capacity house turned out last week to watch and hear the dances he has constructed during his absence. This time his new offering most favored was a temple dance called Tandrava Nrittya. Shankar became the God Shiva, whirling and gesturing, creating the universe only to destroy it. When his wife died, Shiva fell into grief and a state of meditation. Reincarnated as Parvati, she tried to wake him. When the Elephant-Demon, Gajasura, menaced her, Shiva, awake at last, came to Parvati's defense. In the great...
...Yalta by his lungs, Chekhov at last had to leave Russia altogether. With his wife to nurse him through his last illness, he went to Germany to die. On the evening of the night he died, Chekhov told his wife so many funny stories that she failed to hear the gong, missed her dinner. His body was brought back to Russia in a car that had been used to ship oysters in. Biographer Toumanova thinks that would have amused...