Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most valuable as a line plunger and a defensive back. He is much the same type of player as Harper whose resounding tackles and smashing line bucks were among the high lights of last year's games. It is remarkable too that neither Harper nor Guarnaccia were ever heard of as football players until their Sophomore year in college...
...written him that a woman named Bauer in Parkersburg was passing around word that a woman named Sanford in Syracuse, N. Y., had written her that she had seen the Warrior "disgustingly intoxicated" at the Syracuse, N. Y., State Fair. It was just the sort of story that is heard at least weekly by most of the Warrior's friends and foes alike...
...remote, jungled landscapes of India and in the alleyways of cities of Ceylon, music can be heard. To most occidental ears such music sounds queer and ugly, as the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra would sound queer to the inhabitants of the far places. Yet oriental music did not sound ugly to Leopold Stokowski, famed insurgent conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony. In fact during a recent and extensive tour of the Far East he stood "literally hypnotized ... by music such as western ears had never heard, wildly discordant but with overtones of grandeur." Always eager to shock the music-lovers of Philadelphia...
Last week when he arrived, alert music-listeners were in a stew of excitement. They longed to see Stokowski and to ask him to play for them the wild notes of songs which western ears had never heard before. "What have you brought us?" they cried; whereupon Leopold Stokowski showed them three Javanese gongs, sacred objects which made a pleasant noise when struck. These he said he had wheedled from the Sultan of Java...
Instead of notes, Conductor Stokowski offered his admirers notations which he had made upon music heard in Java. Conductor Stokowski said that he had been entertained by the good Sultan of Djokjakarta in his 15-acre palace at the wedding ceremonies of certain of the children of several of the Sultan's 3,000 wives. At this wedding feast he had heard Javanese "gamalongs" or orchestras which he described...