Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this the Belgian Premier led the Chamber of Commerce in vigorous hand-clapping and cries of "Hear! Hear!" Encouraged, Mr. Eden went on to say that the Britain of 1936 is characterized neither by "softness" nor by "cowardice" and that "the terrible weapons that science has forged can be wielded with no mean courage" by Britons now, as in the past...
...second time in Soviet history, J. Stalin had had himself put on the air, and all Russia could hear his thick and at times almost unintelligible Georgian accent as he tonelessly reeled off a speech so dry that even the Orator found it best to solemnly drink on the platform a total of five bottles of mineral water. The happy rural delegates, for most of whom a free trip to the Moscow All-Union Congress of the Soviets once every few years is a glorious treat, gave their mass cheers with greatest goodwill at all the right places and even...
...Drys tend to be sentimentalists, exultant over small victories and busy with niggling activities pending what they believe to be the inevitable return of Prohibition. Last week many a Dry was gratified to hear a comparatively substantial gain by The Cause: the name and cheery figure of Santa Claus are to be banned in holiday liquor advertising in no less than 30 States. Research on this question was done by Ethel Hubler, editor-publisher of a Los Angeles Prohibition paper called the National Voice, who wrote to State liquor control boards wherever they exist. A model State, she discovered...
...need hardly hear of Professor Kittredge's one-volume Shakespeare to be assured that it is a complete and a scholarly work. The publishers have worked with the editor, patiently and skillfully, to reproduce in precise the tremendous knowledge of text, idiom, and literary values which Professor Kittredge owns...
Last May, when the purple path of Congressman Adolph Joseph Sabath's committee investigating bondholders' reorganizations led to Philadelphia for a second time, Philadelphia Co. investors packed the Federal Building to hear what the Philadelphia Inquirer called "one of the most sensational exposes of alleged practices in Philadelphia's top-rank financial world within memory of the present generation." When the Sabath committee scored, the investors cheered. When the sweating bankers offered explanations, they booed and waved empty pocketbooks. Sample revelations...