Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slang goes, no one knows how much of it Louis really did start and how much of it was river boat and Harlemese. But the fact remains that a great many of his early records contained the slang that musicians use today. You won't hear musicians talking about "licorice sticks" (a jitterbug term for clarinet) whereas you will hear them talking about "gage" and "tea" (two terms for marijuana...
...ever hear of Colonel Prentiss Ingraham's colossal writing capacity? Ingraham would have six serial stories running at one time in different periodicals, and provide the copy as required; a detective story, romance story, wild west story, Indian tale, sea story, and Mexican stories of adventure-all good stuff...
...glass shield†. Packed in the square beyond was an audience of 80,000 Heil-Hitlering Germans who had just attended the launching of the 35,000-ton battleship Von Tirpitz. Beyond them was a vast radio audience of millions in Germany, Britain, the U. S. waiting anxiously to hear a speech which had been widely heralded as the Führer's answer to the bold, diplomatic anti-German moves by Britain, France, Poland...
Last Sunday afternoon six finalists, selected by a jury headed by the Metropolitan's General Manager Edward Johnson from among the 54 voices aired (altogether 659 had been auditioned) in the 1938-39 competition, gathered in a studio in Manhattan's Radio City to hear which two of them had won the two $1,000 first prizes and contracts with the Metropolitan. Of the six, none sported Italian names, only one had studied in Europe. The two men were big, straight fellows-baritones. The four women-sopranos-were young, slim, uncommonly pretty, utterly un-divalike. The winners: Lyric...
Every day some 50,000 New Yorkers spend a nickel to dial MEridian 7-1212, hear a telephone operator chirp the correct time. This week, to "increase the scope and value" of its services-and to collect an estimated 3,000 nickels a day-the New YorkTelephone Co. opens a new exchange. Dialers will hear a 25-second weather report, recorded on magnetic tape from information supplied at least four times daily by the U. S. Weather Bureau. Phone: WEather...