Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Senor Tejeda was a troublemaker. He knew it when Tejeda resigned from the National Revo lutionary Party, announced that he was a candidate for President and roved out of his home State to stump all Mexico. All the citizens of Nicolas Romero were on hand last week to hear him speak, though they knew the candidate from Veracruz had no chance of being elected. But Tejeda's hard bitten face and manner notably lacked the routine apathy of a Mexican Opposition candidate. Hoarsely he ranted on about the Government's "treachery against the proletariat." On the platform...
...cold. For nearly five years Ludwig van Beethoven stormed thus at life and music. He was spending his last great powers on a Mass, struggling to keep the mighty contents within the liturgical framework. He was too deaf to know the noise he made at home, too deaf to hear any of his music at the first Vienna performance in 1824. Nevertheless he insisted on standing in the pit and beating time along with the regular conductor. With a fervor and concentration worthy of the music Arturo Toscanini gave the Missa Solemnis last week its first performance...
...pocket and fired into the monk's greasy soutane. Rasputin, foaming at the mouth, kept whispering "Felix, Felix." Youssoupov rushed upstairs where Grand Duke Dmitri. Deputy Purishkevitch and another conspirator named Sukhotin were waiting. "He's alive! He's alive!" cried the Prince. They could hear Rasputin bellowing as he crawled upstairs on hands and knees. Purishkevitch fired three more shots, and Rasputin was pushed out on the sidewalk...
...orchestras, reading over pocket scores in trains, at meals, in bed, he had developed such clear ideas on the meaning of each phrase and nuance. First thing he did was to reseat the orchestra, putting the first violins on one side, the second violins on the other, to hear two distinct voices instead of one massed tone. Next he instructed the fiddlers to make their bows move as one, whether Stokowski fussed about such things or not. The Mozart-Kleine Nacht Musik started off too delicately to suit him. "Excuse me," he shouted. "It is too fairy. Mozart was very...
...seat auditorium Macy visitors could see & hear, among others, the following experts, in demonstration-talks: Ellsworth Vines, tennis; Lou Gehrig, baseball; Margaret Bourke-White, photography; Tony Sarg, puppets; Russell Patterson, illustrating; Arthur Murray, ballroom dancing. Instructors from Heckscher Foundation gave lessons in clay modeling, crayon and charcoal drawing, woodworking, metalworking, painting. Chosen to demonstrate the art of knitting were five Ziegfeld chorus girls. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt was brought to an abrupt halt by the sight of World's Champion Joe Pasco turning a punching bag into a rat-ta-tat-tatting blur with his fists, head, elbows, feet...