Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...journalist, now editor, had occasion to listen to the premiere of an operetta which his friend the composer had written. Surprised and delighted was he to discover that the melody written on the daycoach was the hit of the show, called "Kiss Me Again." It is still a good song. Its composer, Victor Herbert, is dead. But the lady who first introduced it, Fritzi Scheff (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929), still sings it. Last winter she took the production from which the song came-Mille. Modiste-on tour. And the journalist is still well and happy. He is General Manager Kent...
...thumb under a sledge hammer the foreman could get him to talk about the wife and kiddies and thus get his mind off the injured member, or if Manuel should inadvertently fall asleep between rest periods the foreman should not try to awaken him but should sit down and listen sympathetically to his snoring. The only difficulty in this theory would seem to be in discovering that rara avis The Sympathetic Foreman...
...making he is not allowed while presiding over the Senate. Opening Delaware's Republican campaign at Wilmington last week, the Vice President warmly championed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act in an address which was a composite echo of all the Republican tariff speeches he had been forced to listen to during the nine months this measure was before the Senate. High point excerpt...
...Trail. Hollywood herded last week to look and listen at its gaudy Chinese theatre. The most expensive cinema ($2,000,000) since Hell's Angels was there exhibited. The subject was pioneering. The medium was grandure (wide) film. The results were very good...
More than 100 enthusiasts of the national game assembled in the Living Room of the Harvard Union to listen in on the returns of the first game of the 1930 World's Series which was played at Philadelphia yesterday. The progress of the game was followed enthusiastically by the fans. Although on the short end of official betting, the National League leaders seemed to be the favorites of the Union baseball followers...