Word: hearses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ In England Dr. Edward Arnold Carmichael of London conducted volumetric experiments which convinced him that when a person hears a loud, sudden noise his arms and legs shrink in size. Reason: noise, like cold, pain, fright or excitement, releases nerve impulses which contract the capillaries, diminish their blood content...
This time he is a singing fisherman who throws an egg at Tenor Alan Mowbray because he does not like his voice. Hiding from the carabinièri under the terrace of a big house, he hears Gladys Swarthout rehearsing a scene from Romeo & Juliet. Next day when Kiepura is...
Polls. No magic is involved in Emil Hurja's election predictions. His method is simply to avoid opinion, stick to statistical facts. Letters received by the Democratic National Committee and at the White House are all carefully cataloged by subject and place of origin, thereby giving Mr. Hurja some...
Secretary Morgenthau: What I might say, if it became public property or was discussed on the floor of the Senate or the House, might have a very adverse effect on the Government's credit. . . . Senator: Do I understand you to say that your answer to my question would be...
Older critics still refer nostalgically to the way Olive Fremstad interpreted the great Wagner heroines. The younger generation of operagoers hears little about the woman who, from the beginning of the century to the time of the War, was one of the most vital, colorful figures appearing anywhere in public...