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Word: hear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thence, I to the Germanic Museum at 10 o'clock to hear Dr. Kuhn lecture on "Rubens" and mighty well, too! Peter Paul Rubens, as all do know, be a great 17th century Flemish painter; and, as Guido Reni says: "A fellow who mixes blood with his colors." Yet, I am sore at my heart to confess, I do not like his large women too much. He doth seem to make a virtue of sheer flesh. But who be I to judge? One critic says: "To Rubens, flesh was enticing in its largeness, its soft luminosity, its creamy evenness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/14/1936 | See Source »

...entrance to the originally scheduled room. When word spread that the locale had been shifted to Professor Merriman's lair, ladies from Radcliffe, boys and girls from Rindge Tech, and just plain Harvardmen threw dignity to the winds and raced helter-skelter for vantage spots from which to hear that "King Claudius, (Hamlet's uncle), of all geat characters in Shakspere, is the one who has suffered most at the hands of actors and stage managers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVID SHAKSPERIANS FORCE KITTREDGE TO LECTURE HALL | 2/13/1936 | See Source »

...taxicab or sentiment. . . . Glory squashed in the hinge of a history. . . . 2) When lucidly emotional he writes an angry Letter to a Policeman in Kansas City. 3) When not making experimental "statements," he hymns the Revolution. 4) He knows when he has created such a mighty line as We hear the dark curve of eternity go coughing down the hills. Net result of these clues: the no-longer-so-nervous reader forms the opinion that Kenneth Patchen is a poeticule. Twelve years ago Nathalia Crane was a child prodigy. Only daughter of an unremarkable Brooklyn couple, she published her first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poeticules | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

Members of the Crimson track squad will have an opportunity to hear the opinions of cinder experts in a discussion of their own events when Jack Torrance, Charles Hornbostel and Ray Sears give short addresses at a meeting of tracksters and other interested persons at 3.15 'clock today in the lounge of Dillon Field House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Famous Track Stars to Talk At Crimson Track Meeting | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...have heard some say many of the works do look like grand railroad posters. I did try to talk with Mr. Mower but so many fine ladies around all a bubble to compliment him -- and yet I doubt if they said much either--that I could not ask or hear much with him himself. And for this I was sore at my heart, for this be Mr. Mower's last term with the Fine Arts Department which he has served so very well these many years. And a very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

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