Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bobby Jones had guessed would win the tournament. Still deliberate, Perkins extracted the ball from the cup, gave it to his caddy, entered the locker room, straddled a bench, lighted a cigar, ordered a glass of cold beer and prepared to discuss the U. S. Open while waiting to hear that his 289 had definitely...
Still close to the spirit of the homeland are U. S. Sangerbunds, though they have flourished independently for nearly 100 years. Last week the Northwest Sangerbund, one of the four biggest groups in the U. S., held a great Sangerfest in St. Paul, Minn. The homeland cousins could hear it this time, for in St. Paul's Brick Auditorium were 25 microphones to pick up the night's singing and playing, send it to London, Stockholm, Oslo, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and Vienna. There were choruses of children, men and women, singing in groups...
...back to me. Then I shouted it back to him. When we left the governmental palace ... we rode in a state landau and Venizelos shouted the cheer at us from the steps when we were driving off. The Premier seemed very fond of the cheer and we could hear him quite a way down the street...
...latest civic-minded Emery was in Europe last week so she did not see the enthusiastic people milling into the Zoo each night at dusk. She did not hear the ovation which greeted short, stocky Isaac Van Grove when he took the conductor's stand at the opening Aida. Nor did she read his statement: "When I came to Cincinnati this time I felt as though I were coming to a shrine. I could understand the emotion of the Mohammedan who makes once in his lifetime a pilgrimage to Mecca...
...cylinder Cadillac. He had never driven across the continent, able to stop where he wanted, look twice at what he saw. Friends wanted to give him a send-off banquet but he, though he loves good food and good friends, demurred. He did not want "to sit around and hear a lot of goddam flattery. Because. I'm not goin', I'm comin'!" Onetime associate of Adman Barron Collier, Publisher Swasey joined the Hearst organization on New Year's Day 1919 by taking charge (at no salary) of the' Los Angeles Examiner which...