Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected to laugh at repartee like this: "I should fall and break my neck." "That's immaterial to me. "Yes, but not to me." No audience wants to watch Miss Purcell being kittenish when the Chocolate Soldier invades her bedroom, agreeable as Miss Purcell certainly is, or wants to hear her beat her chest and scream "I-hate-you-I-hate-you!" And who is amused by Alexius, the type of the "Miles Gloriosus" who was a theatrical chestnut in Roman times? As for the Bulgarian army, their horseplay suggests the Pirates of Penzance on an off day; they succeed...
...wife returned from evening service at a Nice church, was arrested, grilled. Said she: "My husband told me he had gone to Paris to attend a book sale and sell some of his poetry. Now I think of it he did say: 'You'll soon hear great things of me!' But I thought he meant he expected to sell a lot of books...
Rochester paid so willingly to hear pretty French Lily Pons sing in Lucia di Lammermoor fortnight ago that for the first time in eight years the Metropolitan Opera's visit showed a profit. Last week musical Rochester went three times to the big theatre named for the late George Eastman who gave it, and once to small, chaste Kilbourn Hall which Mr. Eastman built in memory of his mother. But no reckoning had to be done in either boxoffice. These concerts were the second annual Festival of American Music, given free by the Eastman School of Music. Under...
...metropolitan Press, with rare exceptions, has written one of the most shameless chapters in the history of the Republic. . . . What we commonly hear is: 'Leave it to the communities that want the traffic back again to solve the problem for all of us.' Leave it to the sidewalks of New York and the slums of Chicago...
...human ills. Recovered, Ko-sen is now a temple-boy, belonging to the pot-bellied gilt gods. Though given to the gods, he feels no dedication in himself, contrives after a time to run away with Fah-li, another temple boy. In the first town they come to they hear a revolutionary orator recruiting volunteers. Ko-sen is much impressed by the new ideas of liberation from traditional religion, from foreign influence. Fah-li takes all this oratory with a grain of salt, but his love for Ko-sen leads him to volunteer along with...