Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hammonds never heard of Rosicrucian philosophy until she picked up the Kansas City Star's clever story of "Mrs. Col. House," written by Hartley, brilliant reporter. There is a difference between brilliance, clever writing and accuracy...
...Last week the President glanced over the preliminary reports of the March income tax receipts of the Department of the Treasury; from Treasury officials he heard the gratifying news that bigger and better returns indicated a $600,000,000 surplus. Forthwith he returned to the pleasing subject of tax reduction, opined that reduction would be in order by October, if there is no business depression. Newspaper headlines were more conservative than in the past. Editors recalled that President Coolidge, last November, had "foreseen" tax reduction in the session of Congress just ended; but Republican leaders would have none...
Last week as President Borno, of Haiti, heard the combined U. S. fleet boom out the full presidential salute of 21 guns in his honor Brigadier General John H. Russell, U. S. High Commissioner of Haiti, quietly sent his annual report to Secretary of State Kellogg at Washington. Praise he gave to President Borno's administration; his report on the judicial system was less favorable, more revealing. "Trials by jury" he said, "are farcical. The jury is always opposed to the government. . . " The customs receipts had increased, he reported, under U. S. supervision. Meanwhile at the Haitian border, Negro...
...unexpected, stood in command before the Philadelphia Orchestra, presented Julian Carillo's† "System of the 13th Sound." Concertgoers, bred in a world where the finest division of music is the halftone, in which the chromatic scale has a total of twelve tones to the octave, heard, or tried to hear, quarter-tones, eighth-tones, three-quarter-tones and sixteenth-tones, and a chromatic scale in which Mr. Carillo claimed he crowded 96 tones into a single octave. At Conductor Stokowski's command, specially trained musicians first produced on the familiar violin, cello and horn, intervals smaller than...
Through the two movements of Mr. Carillo's Concertino Mr. Stokowski led the orchestra into strange and subtle effects of fractional tone. Of the audience, some saw prospects of infinite, new subtleties of music; many found their ears too coarse for the 96-tone octave, only heard slightly distorted semi-tones...