Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dark-maned, trumpet-voiced Stephen Samuel Wise was not in Providence's Biltmore Hotel last week to hear himself elevated to the Zionist presidency. Zionist Wise was in London, conferring with famed Zionist Dr. Chaim Weizmann and members of the British Government on current Arab-Jewish strife in Palestine (TIME, July 6 et ante). From London Dr. Wise sent word of his gratification, added...
...only 6 when her father began taking her on some of his oil-prospecting trips around the State. Ever since then they have been close companions. On his frequent nights away from home he always telephoned her at bedtime, and when he was home he would always hear her prayers, finish off with a rousing pillow-fight...
...Baldwin had taken secluded refuge in the country while the Opposition belabored him in the House of Commons, was more than ready to hear that he was about to resign. Stanley Baldwin stepped into his limousine at last and was driven 35 miles to the House of Commons where only his henchmen cheered. That night he went to the 100th anniversary banquet of the City of London Conservative Party organization, was greeted by the refrain, "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow!" and made a speech such as only frankly bumbling Stanley Baldwin can get away with...
...swank London audience assembled to hear Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter, lecture on art. was amazed when he stumped down the aisle to the dais in a deep-sea diving suit. Beginning his talk through a microphone inside the helmet, Painter Dali, whose eccentric canvases created a furor in Manhattan nearly two years ago (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), presently was overcome by heat, forced to remove his helmet. Keeping the rest of the costume on until his speech was over, he explained to newshawks: "I just wanted to show that I was plunging down deeply into the human mind...
...trapped miner was a trapped miner, and Superintendent Jones called his foreman, assembled timber, tackle and a squad of miners for the rescue. All that day and the following night the rescuers could hear faint sounds from Enoch Kuklinskie. They were afraid that wet clay dripping from the shaft walls would fill up the air holes in the rubble before they reached him. Next morning they got him free, hoisted him out of the shaft on a board...