Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metropolitan filled again with bulging dowagers and stuffed shirts, music lovers, some in white ties, others in frayed collars, stridulous debutantes with glassy-eyed escorts, and a great dun horde which prides itself on loving music more than show but nonetheless selects the first night of the opera to hear it. The restless din of Society nearly swamped moments of the final act. It was too much for one outraged Teuton who drooped among the lower classes behind the standees' rail. "Quiet please!" he wailed over the surging strains of Artur Bodanzky's orchestra and the equally surging...
...Volpi, Borgioli, Schipa . . .) the lusty high-voiced Latins still capable of raising even moderate-sized rafters on either side of the Atlantic. Since the death of Enrico Caruso (1921), tenor departments of U. S. opera-houses have shown a steady decline. Today their audiences count it a privilege to hear their "Ridi Pagliaccios" and "La donna e mobiles" sung by anything bigger than a microphone voice...
...that they incorporated themselves as The Culbertsons, Inc. Out of The Culbertsons, Inc. come salaries of $2,000 a month apiece, living expenses which last year totaled $107,000. Into The Culbertsons, Inc. go towering profits from a number of sources. Publishers do not like to have their authors hear that Mr. Culbertson gets a royalty of about 33% on his books-of which about 200,000 copies are sold every year. Bridge rules, happily, keep changing. Daily bridge advice from Mr. Culbertson is printed in 110 newspapers, from Mrs. Culbertson in 56. That brings them...
...probably done more for the promotion of skiing in the U. S. than any other person. Until last year he was ski coach at Dartmouth College, where he turned out six championship teams in six years. His Dartmouth pupils, all very fond of him, constantly baited him just to hear him reply in his terrific guttural accent. A few years ago a pupil asked him what to do if, on a downhill run, he should suddenly rush upon a spot studded with rocks and trees. Replied astute Otto Schniebs: "Get off und valk...
...specialized group. As it concerns everybody, so everybody may try his hand at solving it. The aforementioned man of Utah, who wants to put nozzles in streams that the winter torrents may diffuse and freeze, is not the only man from whom the nation may expect to hear during the next months...