Word: heards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife, Sentoria, heard about it and came rushing down to take him home. But she couldn't keep him there-Jim strolled back to the poolroom for a while, then sauntered over to the Busy Bee for a cup of coffee. That was when the cops came. They hauled Jim to Waukegan jail and started talking. "All right, you black son-ofabitch, tell the truth," demanded one. "We know you done...
Anti-Communists hoped that the casino would fold, and with it the republic's leftist regime. Gildo Gasperoni had been heard to say: "If the casino succeeds we will be all right. If it doesn't, then we pack our bags and go." If Gasperoni went, thought San Marinese, Maxim might also go. He might even go in a cloud of sulphur smoke...
During 14 years of military duty in northeastern Peru, Juan Heysen again & again heard the legends of El Dorado and Angayza. Finally, he decided that he had to see the mountain for himself. The government agreed to help-with supplies and Air Ministry aerial photographs. In June the expedition was ready...
...potpourri of prose and poetry, recapping Faust's learning in "alchemy, and, alas, theology," she froze into a catatonic stare, and Faust, followed by Mephistopheles (Bass Arthur Newman) came on to sing (excellently). By the time the audience rushed out for air at intermission, they had seen and heard Maggie, two pianos and four singers (Faust, Mephistopheles, Marguerite, Valéntin) telescope the first three acts into one. Altogether, Maggie's Faust got through to the closing prison-scene trio in just 75 minutes...
Although few Americans know any of Strindberg's plays, they have heard his shrieks echoed on their own stage, particularly in the works of Eugene O'Neill and in some of Lillian Hellman's more unpleasant plays. Strindberg wrote straight historic drama, sunny fairy-tale plays and symbolic fantasies. But he is most noted for his dramatization-in a manner as unnerving as chalk scratching on a blackboard-of seemingly ordinary families in which hatred and insanity screech at each other over the tea cozy...