Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...today the world's finest summer opera. From all along the Lake Michigan shore to wooded Ravinia went one night last week the first audience of the ten-week season. Because one may listen for as low as $1.25 (outside the opera pavilion, but still near enough to hear perfectly), there came people in shirt sleeves as well as gentry in starched collars and decollete. First performance was a novelty: Gioa-chino Rossini's highly difficult William Tell which Chicago had not heard since 1919. Ravinia fans were glad to hear once more Elisabeth Rethberg as Mathilde, plump...
...Jesting at the corpulence of ex-Queen Victoria Eugenie, Madrid's leading Socialist Daily El Socialista mocked last week: "But we hear from Mr. Bourbon [Alfonso XIII] that (in exile) the Queen is losing weight...
...kinds poison her. Scarcely five feet tall, she loathes outdoor exercise, has a quick temper and five nicknames (Slivick, Monkey, Goofy, Brat, Funny Face). She speaks Yiddish, wears no underclothes, cannot eat eggs, can twist her right wrist so that it cracks, likes to go to Bellevue Hospital to hear lectures on psychology...
...Reprisals?" On the tariff side of Hon. Mr. Bennett's budget speech-and to hear U. S. squawks last week one might have thought there was no other side-the Canadian Premier made courteous pretense that he was not offering "reprisals" to the U. S. Hawley-Smoot Tariff upping (TIME, June 2, 1930). Mr. Bennett said that Canada's depressed "infant industries" and her unemployed workers were uppermost in his mind. By protecting industries he would make jobs. Indeed, two days after his speech Premier Bennett proudly explained just exactly why he raised the tariff on wire netting...
...with disorderly conduct, heard that he "while intoxicated did use abusive and profane language and attempted to take the officer's baton." He had, moreover, shouted to the desk sergeant in the police station: "I'm going to burn you all up for this! Wait till you hear from the Senator from Ohio." Fess admitted the whole story, of how he had been refused entrance to a night club, and then had called upon a nearby policeman to help him "crash the gate." When the policeman (whom he referred to in court as "Dick") had tried to quiet...