Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...show that the safeguards surrounding criminal trials in Massachusetts have been radically altered during the last sixty years by legislative action; that in 1860 capital cases were tried before four justices of the Supreme Judicial Court; that the present practice in which a capital case may be heard by only one judge is an anomaly in Massachusetts history, an experiment of barely ten years standing when Sacco and Vanzetti were brought to trial (and a clearly dangerous experiment): and that for this reason, public concern in its working is not only justified but demanded on the part...
...case you are interested in such things, the leading players are Messrs Donald Brian, Herbert Corthell, and Miss Jeanette MacDonald. We've never heard of them, and can't help wondering...
...transportation, a squad of musicians for performance, a thing distinguished only by freakiness. The stately Times disdainfully neglected to mention the concert in its critical column at all, rating it simply a news story, another sensational sideshow of the arts. The sophisticates or neo-sophisticates of Manhattan went, heard, were unimpressed, made no demonstration at all. The general attitude was one of puzzled indifference to a sensation-seeker. To many, this reception seemed unfair. Composer Antheil knows the classics, admires Beethoven and Handel above all others, appreciates them intelligently. He is an accomplished musician himself on orthodox instruments. His departures...
...Moscow studies a young student who is the son of the Chinese Nationalist Dictator Chiang Kaishek. When young Chiang heard last week how his father had taken steps to crush out Communism in China (see above) he wrote to a Moscow newspaper...
...Herr Strauss stuffed the bell of his telephone. Then letters and telegrams poured in. People brought him dead cats and said ,he had advertised for them. Three florid women came with valises, and went away insulted. Some two hundred children came with jelly glasses full of spiders. They had heard that Herr Strauss could pay for them. It was bedlam, pandemonium...