Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resides Beethoven and Wagner, there was Bach?sacred solos and secular cantatas alike, including the drollery of "Aeolus Appeased" which, after writing it to entertain an honored old professor, Bach changed but slightly to celebrate a Polish king. Cincinnati also heard for the first time "La Primavera" of Ottorino Respighi, dulcet lyric on the text: "God is a Child, for His countenance is frank and truthful like that of a man filled with love...
Hope. The world waited?40 hours, 50 hours?no ship had seen or heard the White Bird since it soared along the Irish coast line. Captains Nungesser and Coli were either floating on the Atlantic's waves or resting in peace on its bed. Ships and planes set out from Europe and America with hopes of seeing a floating White Bird...
Joint Assembly. At a joint session of the Pan-American Commercial Conference and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, businessmen of two continents commingled; heard President Victor Macpmber Cutter of the United Fruit Co. instruct them specifically...
...Author. The shrewd, pitiless accents of Edgar Lee Masters, who was born in Garnett, Kan., in 1869, were heard in Chicago long before he turned professional poet. He was a trial lawyer with side interests in Democratic politics. Writing poetry was another sideline. His friend, Publisher William Marion Reedy of Reedy's Mirror, refused several of his contributions, but accepted from one "Lester Ford" some subjective epitaphs on imaginary dwellers in an imaginary Illinois town called Spoon River. This "joke" was the beginning of the Spoon River Anthology. But before Spoon River waxed famous, Poet Masters adopted another pseudonym, "Elmer...
...depicted are simply representations of former Harvard buildings, but in some of the designs there are also figures of men and women and the dress of the latter has been tire most conclusive element in fixing the date of the relics around the middle of the last century. The heard gear of the women, is at least as late as that of the forties while the absence of that of the forties while the absence of hoop skirts shows that the period could not have been much later...