Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speech. Just prior to moving from its oldtime site downtown to a temporary site at 2 Park Avenue (directly opposite the Prohibition Administrator's headquarters), Tammany Hall heard an address from its most distinguished son. The country heard it, too. The son was quite brazen about it and said...
...police had found out one thing against the character of this girl we should have heard it. We may take it that for all their inquiries and resources there is nothing in her life which could be used against her credibility...
...Nobile disaster had pained and depressed the most patriotic editors, but Ferrarin and Delprete pushed the Polar Pilgrim into obscure corners. Typical of the unrestrained expression of the newspapers was the comment of Lavoro: "It almost seems that today in all the skies of the world can be heard the palpitating of Italian wings; from the overcast skies of the Arctic regions to the scintillating heavens of the tropics is being carried that great magic word, 'Italia,' by intrepid hearts and by robust wings. ..." Somewhat obscurely, La Tribuna mused: "We are in the presence of the flight...
...grassy hills of Jugoslavia, shepherds have lounged for centuries, watching the smoke curl up from far-away villages and amusing themselves with strange, melancholy songs, gentle and careless as their flocks. To peasants who have often heard these songs, sounding far away and faint through a whole summer night or winding along the high paths in the twilight, they remain the most pervasive of all music. One such peasant is famed Michael Idvorsky Pupin, who long ago immigrated to the U. S. to become an electrical engineer and professor of mechanics (Columbia). He, with Croatian Violinist Zlatko Balokovic, last year...
...Bozidar Kunc.. Composer Kunc had concocted a short concerto in two movements, the first in "a lovely, brave style," the second a dance which utilized folk melodies. Hitherto unheard of, Composer Kunc was discovered to be a native of Zagreb, capital of Croatia. His concerto will be heard publicly for the first time in October when Violinist Balokovic will play it in Berlin. Thereafter it will occupy a place on 66 programs with which Violinist Balokovic will tour European cities...