Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awoke betimes with the little men making great din. (Zounds, what a rake I am!) Betook me to the CRIMSON and read the Vagabond, the little men fairly screaming. Off to hear Professor Spooch lecture on Icelandic Philolgy. Fascinated, I found myself muttering those famous lines: ... Full many a flower is borne to blush unseen...
Handel's great oratorio, the "Messiah," is being given by the Handel and Haydn Society in Symphony Hall on Sunday evening, December 20. For those who will be around Boston at that time and have not heard this famous work, here is an excellent opportunity to hear a good performance...
...momentary painful scene in the Chamber of Deputies, smiling President Roosevelt was not.* When young Heckler Justo cried out, President Roosevelt merely waved aside the interruption benignantly and began: "Members of the American family of nations. My friends:" Hastily the delegates clapped earphones on their heads to hear his words simultaneously translated into Portuguese (for the Brazilians), French (for the Haitians), Spanish (for other Latin Americans).† Little world-shaking advice did the President have to give but he won loud applause when he declared: "Can we, the republics of the New World, help the Old World to avert...
...stained minions, as they put on the cylinders an edition citing the Bishop's words and further castigating King Edward, believe that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's wife's relatives who own the Yorkshire Post have done this at the instigation of the Prime Minister. They hear that Viscount Halifax, an eminent Churchman whom Mr. Baldwin sent to India as Viceroy some years ago, either knew in advance what the Bishop was going to say or actually put him up to it. Behind Politician Baldwin the proverbially canny Yorkshiremen discern his famed churchy wife, Lucy. They know...
...Downing St., they chant: "The King is right, Baldwin is wrong!" They march on to sing: For He's a Jolly Good Fellow! in front of empty Buckingham Palace. They swing around into Piccadilly and at No. 145 bawl loud enough for the Duke & Duchess of York to hear: "Stand by him! We want King Edward! Perish the politicians...