Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After three years on the Keith circuit, the sisters returned to Manhattan. Carmela determined to study seriously. William Thorner, her teacher, happened also to hear Rosa who, nothing daunted, undertook to sing the difficult Casta diva aria from Norma. Thorner interrupted her in the middle of it to call in his friend Enrico Caruso. Caruso prophesied that in two years Rosa would be singing with him. Six months later, as Rosa Ponselle, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut. Impresario Gatti-Casazza picked the name...
...took roughly a year to get a case before the Supreme Court, another year to bring it to argument and perhaps a third year to get an opinion. Today, under new rules, the court decides within a week whether or not it will grant a review, hears argument within a month or so, renders a decision within the term. When the court first sat last month for its 143rd term, it carried over 113 cases from last June and received 251 new ones (none of large political moment) accumulated during the summer. In a week it swept 103 cases...
while the rest of the College regretfully directs its steps elsewhere, "Copey" will be giving three hundred and fifty Freshmen, no more, a glimpse of that culture which only four years of Harvard can inculcate. Whether the first year student goes to hear Copey read because he wants to see the only man privileged to pasture a cow on the sward of the Yard, or to thrill the nuances of great reading, he will come away with a new perspective on his Harvard career...
With characteristic positiveness, however, Professor Copeland refused to read in the Large Common Room, and so at best, slightly more than 300 out of the 1000 first year men will be able to hear him. If is largely for this reason that upperclassmen will be excluded, and the advisability of issuing tickets to the first applicants, in the anticipation of a rush, is being considered by the Union Committee...
...modern composers, who always seem to send Conductor Stokowski into a highly sensitive state. Last week was no exception. During the curious sounds listed as a Symphony for Small Orchestra by Anton Webern, someone sneezed. Coughs and chuckles were instantly let loose. But Conductor Stokowski did not stay to hear them. His arms fell abruptly to his sides. The orchestra stopped playing, watched him stride furiously backstage. Chuckles subsided amid hisses. Silence followed. Then, in order to fetch Stokowski, the audience decided to clap. No further rude behavior interrupted Mosolow's Soviet Iron Foundry, a bombastic souvenir of Stokowski...