Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Olszewska's fame had preceded her. Many had heard her in Europe and brought home glowing tales of the big, impressive woman whose mighty voice could make Wagner almost as thrilling as the orchestra. More remembered her as the one who spat at Maria Jeritza three summers ago in Vienna. They recalled dimly the picture the press had given them then of an enraged Brünhilde storming across the stage, hurling invectives at two of her colleagues chatting and chortling as they awaited their cues in the wings; of that same vicious Valkyrie going at them finally, gathering a maximum...
...With my friend Mme. Kittle, I sat on a couch in the wings. Mme. Olszewska saw us?. She sang, right with the music. 'What are you doing there, you dirty dogs?' I never heard a taxicab driver use such language. Then she came closer and spat. It [the spittle] struck Mme. Kittle on the cheek. I fainted and they carried me to my dressing-room...
Gods of the Lightning. When Sacco and Vanzetti were executed for the murder of a paymaster, there were many people who thought they were unjustly punished. "Sacco and Vanzetti were martyrs." said these people, "and they will not be forgotten." Thereafter, little was heard concerning Sacco and Vanzetti; it appeared that one of the most exciting episodes of U. S. jurisprudence was not even to arouse the enthusiasm of artists capable of crying in a prosperous wilderness. Then, last week. Maxwell Anderson (coauthor of What Price Glory) and Harold Hickerson (piano-theory teacher at the New York Conservatory of Musical...
...Atlanta, Ga., Sergius P. Grace heard of the Tate report. A vice president and department head of Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc., the research bureau of the Bell Telephone system and the Western Electric Co., Mr. Grace was at Atlanta for the regional convention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers...
...Every year in the U. S. educational world some university or college offers a course which has never been heard of before to a class which has never before assembled. Last week, the University of Cincinnati toyed with the idea of giving a course in "mopology," threatened to be the year's first exploiter of unferreted educational byways. Mopology is destined for janitors. It will not teach lilting songs to rhythmic moppers, nor utilitarian philosophy for long janitorial hours. Mopology will strenuously, scientifically stress the importance of clean corners, dustless desks, and the danger of overheating...