Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five Dionne sisters are starring in their first feature picture, "The Country Doctor", the Metropolitan this week. All who are fond of watching bits of infancy, and seeing quintuple at that, will be delighted to hear that there is plenty of the Dionne petites frolicking about their luxurious nursery, registering all sorts of emotions to anyone with a sympathetic imagination, and knocking over miniature chairs when told to be little ladies. The gruff brat-baiters, on the other hand, will find plenty of diversion in the career of Jean Hersholt, playing the staunch country doctor...
...myself again, but not for long, for I at eight to the New Lecture Hall and there to hear Robert Frost: "The Renewal of Words." But what I remember...
...week as Marshal Badoglio put every available soldier to working on roads and perfecting his service of supply for a fresh offensive. In Rome numerous Italian Senators heard the Papal Secretary of State, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, deliver an address which kept Fascists on pins & needles in their anxiety to hear that the Holy Father had at last come out wholeheartedly for Italy's war. They considered this to have come to pass when Cardinal Pacelli hailed Dictator Mussolini as "not only the Head of the Government but a most cultured Restorer of Imperial Rome." However the Papal Secretary...
...anything, increased the boom, and London Stock Exchange gigolos-the well-born young Englishmen with wealthy women friends who get 50% commission on orders they put in the way of regular brokers-were chided by the financial editor of Lord Beaverbrook's patriotic Daily Express. Wrote he: "I hear that the 'half commission boys' in the West End are speculating in aircraft shares on behalf of their clients, the ladies. This is always a bad sign...
...could hardly repress a laugh as I watched the old fellow, wiping beads of perspiration from his brow, fidgeting nervously with the golden head on his cane. Finally he walked up the stairs to the Sanctum. I could hear him moving about, piling the furniture before the door, and locking the windows. At length he called down to me through the copy shoot...