Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicken In Chicago, a policemen, one Sergeant Krai, bought a dozen fresh eggs for his wife, negligently left them in his locker at the police station. Two days later detectives heard strange sounds-cacklings, scratchings, cries of "Cheep, cheep" -from the squad room. The Sergeant's room was full of chicken...
Largesse In the Prince of Wales suite on board the Cunarder Berengaria, Sanders A. Wertheim, president of Burns Brothers, coal dealers, heard the stewards bawling: "All ashore that's going ashore." His cabin, the most expensive space the Cunard line can sell on any of its ships, was littered with candy, flowers, books, tokens of goodwill left by the employes who had come down to see him off. Now these employes were hurrying down the gangplank. Sanders Wertheim could see them beaming at him, packed inside a rope on the pier. Ah, for a gesture, a gesture proper...
...Mussolini is planning great reforms in the Italian opera houses [TIME, Sept. 6]. The Ministry of Culture in Berlin has created a special music department in which Dr. Leo Kestenberg is doing important work. "I have heard from leading artists in Central Europe that there is talk of an organized effort to prevent the exodus of the best artists...
...thousands there in the flesh stamped their approval, hurled their straw mats into the air, restrained themselves patiently to hear yet another speech by Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten. The thousands far away, in stuffy sitting-rooms, carpet-slippered, collarless, on cottage porches lit by a cool, waning moon, heard the last tremendous strains of the overture, whisked their dials around to another station. The Manhattan outdoor concert season had ended...
...Insensibly, standards of perfection have lowered in Europe through prolonged listening to inferior musicmaking. I have heard present-day cognoscenti in Europe enthuse over performances which would not be tolerated in New York...