Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHAMBERLAIN: I would like to tell you what you want to hear, but I can't always do that. First I'd like to point out the need for keeping our armed forces strong. We have commitments all over the world. Now you may say, 'Do they need me here in Goodrich?' Well, I think all the reserves are needed, wherever they...
Achievement. "The thing you hear from most shipping people," says one U.S. observer in Cairo, "is that the old company was consistently arrogant, the Egyptians consistently courteous and helpful." Considering all the sneers at Egyptian ineptitude, the Egyptians have chalked up in their first two years a creditable achievement...
...text of Canon Collins' sermon was "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me," but the throng in London's St. Paul's Cathedral had come to hear another voice. Too big for his brown suit, Baritone Paul Robeson began with pix Crossing Over Jordan, sent a series of wild melodies booming through the cathedral in the first recital of secular songs in the history of St. Paul's. Afterward, many of the congregation of 4,000 pressed around the American Negro...
...greatest soprano of the period, Lilli Lehmann, sang Carmen in German in her Met debut. But during the Met's "Golden Age of Song," at the turn of the century, Jean and Edouard de Reszke, Emma Eames, Lillian Nordica, Nellie Melba, et al. educated their audiences to hear Italian and French operas sung in their original languages. Still, educated or not, Guest Star Adelina Patti could stop the opera by singing Home, Sweet Home or The Last Rose of Summer in The Barber of Seville's lesson scene...
...born poor, and now I have more money than I can use. The exhilaration of coming in first, the cheering crowds? Tomorrow I could easily be second, then third, and eventually last. As for the cheering crowds, I never heard them. When I race, the only thing I can hear is the purring of my engine, the only thing I can see is my manager's signal from...