Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President drove up to the Capitol to deliver his message on the State of the Union, the hearts of his Secret Service men missed a beat. A man in the crowd close to the car gave an ominous shout. Without waiting to hear what it was they seized and pinioned him, marched him away. All he had shouted was "We want the Bonus!" Police later established that his name was John Alferi, that he was a 47-year-old war veteran from Los Angeles, that he had a pass to the Senate gallery signed by Huey Long. Released, he returned...
...Neff and was granted a pardon. Back in the Louisiana swamplands, where he was born Huddie Ledbetter, his knife made more trouble. He was in State Prison at Angola when John A. Lomax, eminent ballad collector, stopped by last summer and asked the warden if he could please hear Lead Belly sing...
...music will pay to see him. In Manhattan he was given his first reception by the League of Composers, long hospitable to all his efforts. Before he returns to Europe in April Stravinsky will have conducted big orchestras in Milwaukee, Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Boston. Other cities will hear him as a pianist when he plays transcriptions of his works with Violinist Samuel Dushkin...
...Stravinsky was pronounced a genius and he went on to write Le Sacre du Printemps, his historic harsh-rhythmed paean to fertility in the spring. In Paris the first-night audience shouted and hissed so loudly that the dancers were unable to hear the music. The white-faced Nijinsky beat time from the wings. A Londoner was so outraged that he wrote a letter to the Times calling Le Sacre "a threat against the foundations of our tonal institutions . . . [standing for] all the unnameable horrors of revolution, murder and rapine. ... It should have been dedicated to Dr. Crippen, the dentist...
...showed his manly physique, flashed a little of the well-known personality, posed for a couple of pictures, and closed with the final remark, "Now boys, I hope next June you will hear the referee over the radio say '9 and out, and Baer is still world's champion...