Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks from tonight the curtain will go up on the Metropolitan's premiere performance in the 1938 Boston season. And it is with a shout of joy that many of us will greet that opening opera, Verdi's "Otello." For rare indeed are the opportunities of American audiences to hear this masterpiece of the Italian composer's prime...
...like Miss Thompson, had quaked with fear lest Nazi Germany had swallowed Austria, were last week highly delighted to hear Austria in the person of Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg talking back to Adolf Hitler. Through a cheering crowd of 40,000 Viennese, Schuschnigg drove to the Austrian Diet to deliver a speech which made him the hero of Central Europe...
...Lawrence Leeper retained a controlling interest and has given new stock to as many of the original company's stockholders as he could find. This week he and his wife were the guests of Manhattan's Commodity Club, which paid their expenses from Texas to hear them describe their "rubber-tired hoe with a seat...
...years it has grown so big that it no longer has one annual dealers' convention. It has five-one after another, two days apiece, in Cleveland, Manhattan, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Paul. Last week, as the "traveling convention" got under way in Cleveland, 400 dealers were astonished to hear that Iron Fireman, which made $711,000 in 1937 from an uncompromising warfare on oil burners, was going into the oil burner business itself...
Fantastic? Perhaps, the Vagabond reflects. But who knows? Who really knows? Certainly all he can do is to wonder, to guess, to imagine; but in the meantime he plans to go to Harvard 1 this noon to hear Professor Bruce Hopper lecture on "The relations of Soviet Russia with Europe and America...