Word: soundproofing
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...last week, when the twelve survivors of Round 2 were preparing to fight it out in the finals, Brussels, agog, was laying bets right & left. The twelve finalists had been moved from their lodgings to the Royal Palace in suburban Laeken. There each of them was shut in a soundproof room with a piano and a brand-new manuscript copy of an unpublished (and unknown) concerto by Belgian Composer Jean Absil, composed especially for the occasion. For seven days they sweated over this assignment, kept from contact with the outside world but allowed to walk in the Palace grounds...
...soundproof police cellars had just been executed last week the 18 Old Bolsheviks condemned at Moscow's latest blood-purge trial (TIME, March 21. et ante) and one of the dead was Nikolai Krestinsky, up to a few months ago First Vice-Commissar of Foreign Affairs. In the past twelve months Commissar Litvinoff has also suffered the execution or disappearance of nearly all the great figures of Soviet diplomacy, including the Soviet Union's chief expert on Near & Far East affairs, Leo Karakhan, and several Soviet diplomats have fled abroad to denounce Communism & Stalin. Moscow papers had just...
...over their heads. British Broadcasting Corp. had decided that the proceedings merited a national hearing. Art-lovers listening in heard the voice of a commentator but little else, because bids were indicated by a flick of an eyebrow or pencil, and also because the announcer was enclosed in a soundproof booth. At the end of three days, the sale's returns stood...
...Pierre Wertheimer's famed racing stud is not unsophisticated. But he had seen nothing yet. The show that Mike Jacobs cooked up for the tenth and last night of the tournament will be held before 15,000 people in Madison Square Garden. The players will be closeted in soundproof glass booths. On a table top 100 ft. square, 52 sandwich men will act as cards, running out as they are played, falling down and being "swept up" when a trick is won. The victorious team will receive a new bridge cup, the International Challenge Trophy. What Mike Jacobs will...
...friend MacDonald. . . . This shouting down of people and refusing to hear arguments ... is more than stupid. It is bad." Demos continued, however, to boo Stanley's friend Ramsay off the boards and the only speech Mr. MacDonald was able to finish last week he made in a soundproof broadcasting studio at Newcastle. Beside himself with worry, the pathetic Scot seemed to forget that it was Ramsay MacDonald who insisted on running at Seaham against the advice of friends & colleagues and blurted to a sympathetic wellwisher: "The National Government should never have put a candidate here. It will...