Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Timid, red-nosed Grigor Moisil, Rumanian ambassador to Turkey, may have longed to do much the same thing. He heard that Foreign Minister Ana Pauker had purged his good friend Justice Minister Lucretiu Patrascanu, and lived in fear that he himself would be called home. Last week, within a 24-hour span, four announcements in Ankara gave a clue to his state of mind: 1) the Turkish government announced that Grigor had decided to quit his post and move to Switzerland; 2) the Rumanian embassy announced that he had died of eating poisoned mushrooms; 3) the Rumanian embassy announced that...
When the firemen turned their backs, Ross climbed to a parapet from which he could see Faith's recess. There, surrounded by smoldering ruins, sat Faith-serenely nursing her kitten* and "singing," said the rector, "such a song of praise and thanksgiving as I had never heard...
...Francisco operagoers were having more fun than a picnic. At first they giggled, then they laughed; soon they were standing up and screaming "Encore!" It was all because of a new basso no one had ever heard of before. "He's wonderful," cried a lady with a tiara...
Italo Tajo had sung Don Basilio only two days after arriving in the U.S., and after only one rehearsal. But he has been working up to it since he was 13. It was then that he heard Pagliacci in Milan. Before long, he was reading librettos behind his schoolbooks. His schoolwork suffered ("I was stupido"), but Tajo didn't care...
...days later, plump, curly-haired Dorothy, 26-a soprano hardly anyone in London had ever heard of-found herself in the studio of His Majesty's Voice recording company. The famed star of the Milan Opera, Madame Margherita Grandi, was making a recording of the sleepwalking scene from Verdi's Macbeth. Suddenly, right at the end, Madame Grandi shut her mouth, and Dorothy took over. She sang three notes-F, A flat, and top D flat. For her pains, she got a slight bow from Madame Grandi and 5 guineas ($21.15). Then she went home...