Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beginning to be regarded as certain that several of these couples at least would be dancing until after the election when an untoward event occurred. Health officials, who had hitherto been unable to discover any evidence of physical injury to participants, heard rumors of an internal hemorrhage, suffered, in Wilkesbarre, Pa., by a onetime contestant, a week after he had resigned from the marathon. With this as evidence they commanded Promoter Crandall to stop his marathon. Half an hour before the time set for foreclosure, Promoter Crandall mounted the rostrum in Madison Square Garden, made an eloquent and graceful speech...
...often exceedingly apt and always enthusiastic interpretation of Donald Kirkley, a one-time journalist. The frivolous Baltimoreans did little to endanger the laurels of adroit Producer Winthrop Ames; on the other hand, their performance did little to justify gloomy anticipations and only the most frenzied Savoyards were heard to complain of the way in which the chorus yodeled: "Twenty love-sick maidens we, love-sick all against our will, twenty years hence we will be twenty love-sick maidens still...
...with the pompous clankings of Roman centurions, the sophistries of Pharisee and Sadducee, the sharp bickerings of tradesmen in the temple court. Instinctively avoiding the fierce challenge of the city, Jesus kept to the hills, pondering the wickedness of priests, and the gullibility of the people. But suddenly he heard "the voice of one crying in the wilderness"-John decrying all that Jesus himself abhorred. Wakened from his listless dreaming, by John's prediction that "one mightier than I cometh," he started out among humble villagers, bringing them a message of love far simpler to understand than the hair...
That blatant vegetarian and seer, George Bernard Shaw, has never set foot in the U. S. and swears that he never will. Yet, last week, his face was seen and his voice was heard in Manhattan. The Movietone of the firm of William Fox accomplished the trick. Mr. Shaw was caught walking idly in his garden. Suddenly he stopped, faun-like, and looked into the camera as if it were just a jolly surprise. Then, with his beard close to the camera, he began to talk and confess to the public what a genial and gentle old fellow he really...
Three problems confront the makers of talkies: 1) Women's voices. At present, most of them have a lisp or a husky sound when heard over the Vitaphone. 2) Dialog. Subtitle writers can be stupid, but writers of dialog that is heard should be clever. 3) Sound and Quiet. The abrupt changes in the middle of a film from mute lips to sound-emitting lips are annoying, unreal. (Perhaps the full-length films can be divided into talking acts and nontalking acts...