Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Play. Brightest event of the A. N. P. A. meeting was the dinner of its bureau of advertising, addressed by Funnyman Will Rogers. Twitting the publishers for their fear of radio, Rogers observed sarcastically: "If you hear any peculiar noise on the radio tonight it will be people breaking up their radios after reading a resolution adopted here today. If you really want to stop the development of radio advertising, either find a home-made cure for pyorrhea or murder Amos and Andy. Why, there will still be a radio in every home when people pay 10¢ to see what...
...dress suit. The cutaway he wore last week at an Orchestra Hall recital, for which boxes were taken by such important patrons as Charles Henry Swift, Rufus Cutler Dawes, Harold Fowler McCormick, Conductor Stock. Pianist Josef Hofmann was playing two blocks away but a good-sized audience came to hear Rosenstein, heartily applauded his poise throughout a difficult program, his accurate speed in Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata, his purity of tone enhanced by a $20,000 Stradivarius lent him for the occasion...
...basis of a nationwide survey Manager George Engles of National Broadcasting Co.'s Artists' Service last week announced that $10,000,000 had been spent in the U. S. this season by more than 10,000,000 people who went to hear concerts. The figures, while not record-breaking, are surprisingly optimistic considering the Depression, according to Mr. Engles. Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski, whom Mr. Engles manages, drew the largest business-$500.000. Next best, box-officially, were Violinist Fritz Kreisler, Tenor John McCormack, Pianist Serge Rachmaninoff. Chicago and Manhattan paid more for concerts this year than last; Cincinnati...
...earlier in the same chapter, where he tells of selling his first trimotored plane to Byrd for the latter's North Pole flight of 1926 "on condition that the Fokker name would be left on it. Edsel Ford had liberally financed Byrd, still, I was somewhat surprised to hear later that the Fokker had somehow become Josephine Ford...
...changes. The Vagabond had heard from stray sources that Russia too has changed. Something about the Czar's fall and a communistic government. This was more than he had bargained for; he would have to find out about it all. Today at ten, therefore, he goes to Boylston to hear a lecture about post war Russia and the Soviets by Professor Karpovitch. It has come to the Vagabond's cars that the lecturer was an engineer in Russia before 1917, the Russia which the Vagabond knew so well, and also a minister in the Kerensky government...