Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time. In my notebook above these lines I had written for reference ''Unknown Soldier, Arlington'' and never noticed until the other day that the initials of these three very significant words are just simply U. S. A. "Still a funny old Codger," I hear you say. Maybe...
...Protestant wants to hear Protestant national services on Sunday, he may tune in thus...
Roxy was chosen to receive the New York Federation's award for his service to masses rather than classes. The Roxy orchestra plays symphonic music 365 days out of the year to people who would never hear any otherwise. During the Depression most orchestras have been cutting down on personnel. Roxy increased his to 125. He recently launched a series of 20 Sunday-morning $1 concerts for the benefit of unemployed musicians...
...easy to smile at these and say they are pieces that have been played to death; but when this much is said, it must also be added that they are excellent music. That a dozen or so whistlers casually toss them off waiting to get in and hear the Tehaikowsky "1812," together with a ballet performance of the Rimsky-Korsakoff "Scheherazade," indicates a great change from, let us say, ten years ago. At that time, even if there had been a few who could have whistled this music, they would have been razzed into silence by the crowd...
...exceptional jobs might be done. . . Yet, outside of University circles probably no-one would accuse the operators of being in particularly good form. The Vagabond who has never taken anything in his life but other people's time, and not so much of that, was therefore mildly surprised to hear that the old Philosophy A examinations managed to get through the Widener customs down by the turnstiles. This appears to be just another symptom of overemphasis of examinations. Outside of the repulsive enthusiasm that must be necessary in order to read one of the beastly things through, actually...