Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Experimenting on its own hook last week, KECA inaugurated a program called Encore Theatre, presenting the same show three times running each week to accommodate first-night absentees and those who might like to hear a program a second or third time...
...whose favorite band leader is Duke Ellington, visited Manhattan, listened reverently in hotspots, bought about 1,500 jazz records to take home with him. Critic Lim did not like jitterbugs. They seemed like irreverent, undignified drunkards. "If," said he, "we in Batavia were ever so lucky as to hear a concert by Duke Ellington or Tommy Dorsey, we would study it, sit and revel in the sound of it, but we would not shake our fingers at it nor cut the carpet with our shoes...
...Hear our praise resound...
...General usually wears, except on ceremonial occasions, a dark civilian suit. He does not mind the numerous luncheons and dinners he has to attend, likes to go out evenings, to hear opera and ancient music. If he stays home he reads. His library is stocked principally with philosophy, folklore, political and military history and treatises on his other old favorite: map making. He has few friends, but one of his best, oddly enough, is that other able professional, Marshal Pietro Badoglio of Italy. On his 55th birthday General Gamelin married. He and his wife, who is as neutral-toned...
...Once the trephining of the skull was over . . . my mood underwent a change. There was a sound of pumping and draining and I could hear the drip, drip of a liquid. Although my brain didn't hurt at all, it did hurt me when one of the instruments fell on to the glass with a sharp, metallic sound. A certain idea passing through my mind hurt me too. It had nothing to do with my present situation...