Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Phelpses were saved. "Govvie" jumped off the stern, found a dangling rope, clung to it for six hours. Said he afterward: "I had to watch women I'd met and danced with drop off one by one and hear their desperate and familiar voices pleading. Finally there was a perfect rain of people. A hundred or more came leaping over the side to escape a sudden burst of flames. They hit one another in the descent. Many sank like stones...
...southerly breeze blew Yankee's parachute spinnaker flat against her mast, broke the jumper strut and forced her to withdraw from the third race. After the fourth, which Rainbow won in a fresh breeze over a 30-mi. triangle, by two-and-a-half minutes, observers were prepared to hear that Rainbow had been selected. Instead, they learned that another race had been scheduled for the next...
...approaching 75th birthday he went on a final grand tour. As it had when he was 20, Paris greeted him hysterically. This time London, too, was cordial; Victoria invited him to Windsor Castle. All Europe held concerts in his honor. On his way from Luxembourg to Bayreuth to hear Tristan a honeymooning couple entered his second-class compartment, leaned gaily out of the open window. Franz Liszt caught a chill. At Bayreuth it developed into pneumonia. His last word: "Tristan!" The Princess died a year later...
Almost as white as the white robe he wore, Negro Actor Richard B. Harrison ("De Lawd" of The Green Pastures) sat under a spotlight before 30,000 spectators in Chicago's Soldier Field one night last week. Three blacks to one white, they were there to see and hear 0 Sing a New Song, a gigantic three-act pageant of the Negro race. The solemn words of Narrator Harrison put in motion a sight & sound spectacle that required the voices of 5,000 U. S. blacks, the wild antics of a handful of Basuto tribesmen brought from Africa...
...itself a picture rarely makes news. Only when someone discovers it or destroys it, damns it or dotes on it does the public hear about it. Last week the following pictures made news in the following places...