Word: heard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Teagarden has a new band; and since this is to be one of his first jobs, no really accurate information as to the band's performance can be obtained. However, this reviewer heard the rehearsals in New York and thought that it showed signs of being a really great organization. Charley Spivak, formerly Bob Crosby's ace trumpet man, Ernic Cacares, whose sax playing aroused so much comment in New York at Nick's, and Allan Reuss, formerly with Goodman (guitar) are all playing with the band. And Mr. Teagarden himself, known to the trade as "Big Gate," is going...
Suddenly, with a grateful sigh, the Vagabond found himself in the blessed aridity of the lobby. He moved his toes and heard in unpleasantly decisive "squoosh," and he knew that he would have to go somewhere immediately and dry his shoes; he had heard rumors of Stillman's newly-adopted exclusiveness. But suddenly Vag completely for-got about wet shoes and infirmaries for there directly in front of him was a gigantic board, studded with pictures of his secret love is Hepburn, Vag mooned and sighed and fell into a cataleptic trance...
...Temporary National Economic (Monopoly) Committee, which fortnight ago was entertained by SEC Chairman William O. Douglas' smart display of the insurance industry's enormous power, last week heard Bill Douglas try to prove that insurance directors use their influence to swing business their own way. Evidence: 1) while a director of New York Life, Alfred E. Smith solicited fuel oil contracts for certain of its properties; 2) Mutual Life's deposit at Bankers Trust Co. jumped from $150,000 to $1,500,000 when Bankers Trust's President S. Sloan Colt became a director...
...brawny lad of 20 before he heard there were any good living poets in Ireland, he published his first poems shortly after in the Irish Statesman, made a pilgrimage to Dublin. Tramping back to Mucker pronouncing the Irish gods and heroes dead, the fairies driven underground, Poet Kavanagh concluded: "Writers leave Ireland because sentimental praise, or hysterical pietarian dispraise, is no use in the mouth of a hungry...
...hushed with respect. "Music by Chopin . . arranged by Liszt . . . played by Paderewski!" And then the Master began to let his fingers ripple up and down the keyboard with a technique and tone that captivated the countless thousands of Harvard men tuned in at the moment. But many a listener heard at one time or another during the program a slowly increasing buzz. Was the immortal Paderewski executing a deft tremolo with the lower tones? Was the discord a modernistic tone-poem? Was the piano out o tune? Most emphatically not! It was simply that certain unnamed but fuzzy-bearded individuals...