Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cracked President Frank: "Those are the kind of things you can hear at any major university in the country. . . . Moreover, [Mr. Wilkie's report] is shot through with inaccuracies. I have no intention of presenting my resignation...
...eclipse since his resignation from the Cabinet after the Budget leak (TIME, June 1 et ante), is nevertheless a Privy Councilor for life and last week was out in full regalia with the 300-odd other Privy Councilors in the Throne Room of St. James's Palace to hear King George VI read his accession address: "... I take up the heavy task. . . . My first act ... to confer on [Edward] a dukedom. . . . He will henceforth be known as His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor. ... I declare to you my adherence to the strict principles of constitutional government...
...efficacy of her humanizing by falling in love, not with her but with her dullest pupil, Maizie (Dorothea Kent). Getting this situation straightened out involves some of the most uneven comedy dialog of the season. Sample, when Maizie is angling for a job on Body & Brain: "I can hear my mother say take good care of your body, Maizie, because...
...audience of approximately 150 was present to hear President Conant's acceptance, not only as the highest officer of the University, but also as an alumnus who two decades ago was an undergraduate residing in Eliot House...
...pert, Fauntleroy-like Freddie Bartholomew, who distinguishes himself above his older colleagues, where acting is required. In places the reform story of the son of an executed murderer and the son of a voluble A.E.F. veteran who made "the world safe for democracy," drags. It is maudlin to hear the judge in the juvenile court make friends with the boys, suspected of a burglary, by telling them the devil failed to be an angle because he wasn't tough enough. Elsewhere it moves with the pace characteristic of polished direction and capable acting. The scene of Bartholomew picking a fight...