Word: heards
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...business taken over by Chinese, Eastern Europeans and East Indians. He has seen Jamaica Negroes, first imported to build the Canal, monopolize jobs on that waterway. He has seen the import business, utilities and banking taken over by Anglo-Saxon Americans, by the British and by Germans. He has heard English spoken on the streets as freely as Spanish; he has read street signs, menus and business correspondence in English. Finally, he has found that the wage scale for his own countrymen is lower than the scale for aliens. Having absorbed nationalistic ideas in Italy, where his brother, onetime President...
Within a year Soprano Pons made her debut, in 1928, in the provincial French opera of Mulhouse, Alsace. Her voice was heard in a few more second-string opera houses-Cannes, Vichy, La Baule-and, still unknown in France, pricked the ears of a couple of tourists. They were Maria Gay, an oldtime opera singer, and her husband Giovanni Zenatello. They took up the innocent Lily, promised her an audition at the Metropolitan. Within a few months Lily Pons was taking 16 Metropolitan curtain calls in Lucia, 30 a few nights later in Rigoletto. Later the Zenatellos sued...
...civilians: 1) production of arms, 2) production of trained men to make and service those arms. Last fortnight Defense Commissioner William S. Knudsen told industrialists that the first job was lagging. Last week U. S. vocational teachers, gathered at a convention of the American Vocational Association in San Francisco, heard that the second job was going better...
When Dr. Lane started his difficult job, he got an encouraging but not enormously helpful letter from Peter Kapitza. He has not heard from the prisoner scientist since. Apparently the Soviets disapproved the correspondence...
Wodehouse's American friends for a long time heard nothing about him at all. This week they learned that he is interned in a former insane asylum at Tost, a small village in the monotonous sugar-beet flatlands of Upper Silesia. Wodehouse has been there since the prison camp was created last September. No Castle Blandings, his prison is a big, brick, T-shaped, three-storied structure with many barred windows, high brick & wooden walls. A small military garrison runs and guards the camp. Central heating is said to be good, sanitation adequate. There are hospital facilities...