Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinner' of Yale alumni in Manhattan at the official opening of Yale's latest $20,000,000 campaign, I am to address by radio all Yale alumni in the U. S. and also Europe. A 32.79-metre wave, it is expected, will make my plea for money heard by Yale men, idle and diligent alike, in London, Paris, Berlin, Venice, Cairo...
...dast turn around or leave that corner!" they said. . . Sister Eva never came. . . . Next morning a nun found a figure standing in the corner of the sewing room, stifling sobs. "It was awful dark and lonesome," said obedient Helen Wilkus. "Then the light came and I heard the sparrows and I wasn't so scared. I sat down then, but I stood up again when I was rested...
...nose toward his home, half a mile away. Driving at his customary 25 miles per hour, even though the Chicago-Detroit highway was comparatively empty, he had nothing to vex him but a drizzling rain and a bleak landscape. Suddenly, as he crossed the Rouge River bridge, he heard the roar of a big car behind him and a Studebaker drew up alongside, smashed into him, sped on toward Detroit. Mr. Ford's Ford spun around crazily, bounced over a six-inch curb, tumbled down a 15-foot embankment, came to rest with the aid of a tree. That tree...
Last week a great flood of carefully prepared talk about such composers as Beethoven, Tchaikowsky, Dvorak, Strauss, Wagner, Brahms, was heard all over the country in felt-carpeted apartments and soundproof cubicles which have for years echoed with arguments and ecstasies over Paul Whiteman, Irving Berlin, Al Jolson, Van & Schenk, Harry Lauder. The Victor Co. last week set out to make "his master's voice" the voice of the masters. Of all the factors that have made the U. S. suspicious, as a nation, of any music less candid than jazz and coon songs, no factor is more important...
...benefit of any who have never heard Professor Edgell lecture--though that there should be any such seems scarcely credible--the Vagabond has but one word to say. He himself has been a rather constant attender at one of this gentleman's courses and he can truthfully say that he has never been disappointed. Not only has he never been disappointed, but with hardly an exception has been enthralled not only by the uninterrupted flow of speech which comes from the platform, but even more by the genius with which the kernel of each subject is laid bare without...