Word: hear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand, it would be equally wrong to accept the claims of Antifascist agitators. When the concordat between Rome and the Vatican was concluded, for example, you could hear them explain that it was done partly in order to gain the support of the clergy for the forthcoming plebiscite, and a hint was thrown out that such support was rather needed. Now, however, it will be asserted that the people in Italy had no choice but to vote for the Fascist candidates. Emigres are as hard to please as an irate mother-in-law, and who will blame them...
Over 1,000 people crowded into the large lecture hall of the Fogg Art Museum yesterday afternoon to hear Professor Arthur Pope '01 speak on "The Various Phases of Modern Movements in French Art." The audiences yesterday and on Wednesday, when Professor Paul Sachs '00 delivered the first of the two addresses, were the largest and most diversified that have ever attended such events in the Museum...
...March 4, shortly after noon, Helen Terwilliger, 13, sat comfortably in her eighth grade U. S. history class in the Walden, N. Y., public school. She was primed for what she was about to hear over the radio. She had memorized the Presidential oath, as prescribed by the Constitution, and was positive it ended with the words: "Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States...
Alert, clear-eyed, sharp-eared, she heard Chief Justice Taft begin the oath: "You, Herbert Hoover, do you solemnly swear . . ." And what was her amazement to hear him conclude, "preserve, maintain and defend the Constitution of the U. S." That was a bad misquotation of the text, thought Helen, who sat right down and wrote the Chief Justice a polite note of correction...
...Hear the hens laugh- Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! Foreign yolks have come unstuck! One egg, two eggs, three for luck...