Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of the year, and this certainly ought to be stopped. Why not insist that the boxers only box for a certain number of days before each contest and insist that they be further handicapped by having one hand tied behind them during each fight? Our swimmers! Horrors! I hear that they are swimming during the summer. This is certainly a step backward, and they should be forbidden to swim except during the College swimming season. Our baseball team would be sufficiently handicapped if its practice were limited to three days before each game and if it were forced...
Kirkland House will hear three lecturers in the next two days on varied subjects. Andre, Morire, professor of French, will give a conference on "French Civilization at 7.15 o'clock this evening. Tomorrow Zechariah Chafee, professor of Law, will speak on "Freedom of Speech" in the senior common room white F. W. C. Hersey '00, instructor is English, will talk on "A Walk Through Hardy's Wessex," which he will illustrate with lantern slides...
...campaign, has said that it "must convince people that the banks are vital to their own interests. The bank is a part of the machinery of life." The people who have lost their life-savings by the closing of banks throughout the country certainly will be surprised to hear that...
...attempt of Vincent Youmans, than whom Richard Rogers, George Gershwin, Cole Porter or Jerome Kern are no better. And yet, for all this talent, Through the Years remains a dreary, lifeless affair of lavender and old lace. You will sit through the better part of three acts before you hear a tune anything like the kind Composer Youmans wrote for Rainbow, Great Day, Hit the Deck cr Florenz Ziegfeld's Smiles. Best number in Through the Years is "Drums In My Heart," which should be drumming long after the show is packed off to the warehouse...
...been touring the Riviera with her husband, Tenor Giovanni Zenatello, two years ago, if they had not stopped off at the opera house in Montpellier and heard an unknown French girl sing Lucia in true coloratura fashion, U. S. audiences would not be paying fancy prices this season to hear Lily Pons. The Zenatellos brought Lily Pons to Manhattan, got her an audition at the Metropolitan Opera House. Three months after her sensational debut (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931), Lily Pons abruptly left the hotel suite which she and her oldish Dutch husband shared with the Zenatellos. She cancelled her contract...