Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the bleak late-Victorian beamed roof of Westminster Church House last week sat the Worshipful Frederick Keppel North, Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich, at the head of an ecclesiastical court to hear charges preferred by the Lord Bishop of Norwich against Rev. Harold F. Davidson. Church House was packed with prebendaries, minor canons, curates, newshawks. By nightfall British readers grew pop-eyed over the details of "the most sensational trial in church history." the trial of the "lewd rector of Stiffkey...
From one Mexican village to another this winter a white man traveled, asking for and intently listening to music. A swart Mexican accompanied him, explained to Aztecs and Tarascans that it was their own native music the stranger wanted to hear, not the imported hodge-podge played in Mexican cities. The stranger was interested in the rude, primitive sounds made by the chirimia (clay pipe), the marimba made of gourds, the teponaztle, which is the Mexican Indians' drum, the noisy basis for all their music. Indians took to calling the white man Chokopul which means "one of wandering wits...
...term insurance." In 1930 a number of companies sought to have him barred for what they considered unethical practices. He filed suits, still pending, asking $200,000 in damages from 31 companies and 33 agents. One day last October, The Man Who Sued Coolidge tuned his radio to hear a speech on insurance by the former President of the U. S. His blood boiled when Mr. Coolidge nasally warned: "Beware of the so-called 'twister' and 'abstractor' or any agent who offers to save money for you by replacing your policy in another company." Saying...
Happy Landing, Well aware of the risks, skill, and courage involved in flying, some theatregoers may be embarrassed to hear a group of greasepainted actors chatter knowingly about "low ceilings," "take offs'' and "happy landings." That argot, one somehow feels, should be indulged in only by the aviation fraternity if & when it chooses...
...London this winter, the bright young people of Mayfair danced nightly to "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and "You're Blase," smart tunes made right in London. In Paris, people go to swank Monseigneur especially to hear Lucienne Boyer sing "Parlez-Moi d'Amour," a.soft, fragile French song. In Berlin Tenor Richard Tauber, the monocle man. is making "Du bist mein Traum" a worthy successor to "Dein ist mein Ganzes Herz...