Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parliamentary wrath in months. Representatives of other classes showed not the least embarrassment in rebuking the presumptuous proletariat, and cheers greeted a resounding slap at Premier Blum by famed old Senator Joseph Caillaux, many times Finance Minister. "It is, as you say, the duty of every Government to hear both the employers' and the workers' sides," roared M. Caillaux at M. Blum, "but you Monsieur le Président du Conseil, have shown preference for the predominance of a class -the proletariat-which has the right to our solicitude but which is not the only class...
...though seen from a distant hilltop. It is a walled city of the fifteenth century, shining in the sunlight among poplar, plane and cypress. The river Adige like a thread of silver. We hear faintly the sound of many bells which grows louder...
...White House in Washington last week Eleanor Roosevelt lay on her back recovering from grippe and thinking kind thoughts of the world-kind thoughts of the venerable G. A. R., whose martial music she could hear through her window; kind thoughts of Steve Vasilakos, the peanut merchant on whose behalf she interceded for the second time when police tried again to oust his pushcart from the White House corner; kind thoughts of her own husband. For as Mrs. Roosevelt reported in My Day, the President "asked Mrs. Scheider who was doing my column and she said, 'Mrs. Roosevelt...
...physical shape." Its New England members, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, are the tallest group of human beings in the world, 178.03 centimeters (circa 5 ft. 10 in.). First official act of the Class of 1940 as it gathered in its new colleges was to hear addresses of welcome and counsel from its new presidents. Newsworthy presidential soundoffs...
...Vagabond is weary with worry about culture in America and on Tuesday morning at nine travels to Harvard 6 to hear Professor Brinton begin his lectures in History 34a--"The Intellectual History of Europe...