Word: hear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once instinct with poetic feeling and accurate as paraphrase. The stanza overflow is capably handled and the meter admirably suitable. It seems that wherever Mr. Ageo prints his work the level of the periodical is thereby raised, and it is with the pious wish that we mav hear more from him in these transalpine wastes that we conclude these catalogue of fatuities...
Sweeping in a Manhattan post office, last week, a negro employe stepped on a parcel and was startled to hear it go siss, and emit wisps of smoke. He gave it a "kick, let out a yell. The package stopped smoking, and nothing happened...
Seeing her husband thus at peace, Madame La Maréchale, frugal, set off to market, taking along her cook to carry the market bag. Then for a time there was no one in the house but "Papa" Joffre, so fast asleep that he did not hear light steps on the porch, the creak of the front door which Madame La Maréchale had accidentally left unlocked, or stealthy footfalls which soon indicated that someone was prowling all over the house. Surely it could be no sneakthief. Who would steal from lovable, heroic "Papa" Joffre, who saved Paris...
...husband a snorting, supercharged Mercedes. Whenever he is in a hurry he flies, and he is always in a hurry, though his mannerisms and probably his thoughts are deliberate. A most annoying habit is to speak to subordinates in tones so low that only by straining can they hear. The Emperor Napoleon was at times similarly guilty. Indeed as Der Herr Direktor sits at his very big desk - autocratically directing a fleet of 174 vessels totaling 731,688 tons - he is not without a wholly German and quite paradoxical resemblance to the French "Little Corporal." Frugal and precise of tongue...
Britain's leading theatrical weekly, The Stage, flayed B.B.C., last week, for a new and super-autocratic ruling, that the names of actors and actresses in plays put on the air will no longer be announced. Amazing B.B.C. explanation: Hundreds of listeners have complained that when they hear Actor John Doe in the role of Hamlet, having last seen him perhaps as Sherlock Holmes, their visual memory of a detective in a checked overcoat greatly impairs their ability to obtain over the radio an auditory image of a gloomy Dane addressing the skull of "Poor Yorick." If the actor...