Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular meetings, prominent German speakers have been presented and members have been presented and members have thus had opportunities to hear a wide variety of subjects discussed. In an endcavor to catch something of the atmosphere of a typical German student club, ceremonials and customs, quite foreign to us, but serving to give a clearer comprechension of a very typical side of the German student's life, have been introduced, particularly in the less formal part of the meeting, and have caused a spirit of good fellowships and the famous Gomuetlichkeit to provail. In addition, joint meetings with the Radcliffe...
...26th consecutive season, solidly booked for 35 weeks. Chesty little Fortune Gallo has long challenged anyone who says that opera cannot pay. San Carlo's record last week again proved him right. The Company played in Montreal, Ottawa, Hamilton, Toronto.* During the week 25,000 persons crowded to hear Fortune Gallo's troupers...
...dramatic effect of Paths of Glory seems somehow to miss the full impact of What Price Glory? or Journey's End, it is probably due to a slight flaw in the matter of illusion. It is a little distracting to hear men dressed as French soldiers yearn for Paris and their native villages in honest New Yorkese. As the two most prominent of the condemned men, however, a pair of extremely credible performances are turned in by young Actor Myron McCormick, late of the Princeton Triangle Show, and oldtime Actor William Harrigan, commander of the 3rd Battalion...
...greatest gift is his "flypaper memory." As a boy in Lincoln, Neb., he disrupted a Sunday-School contest for memorizers of Bible verses by rattling them off by the chapter after one reading. Years later the members of a Neighborhood Club in Belmont, Mass., who met weekly to hear a paper by one of their number, were nonplussed by Member Pound's habit of arising after each paper, no matter what the subject, to give a more authoritative treatment. His particular interests are botany, Freemasonry, military history of the Civil...
...heading for the market place. There he knows he will meet Plato and Glancon and other men with whom he can examine this all too unexamined life. As they retire to the quiet of some nearby olive grove they will be followed by enthusiastic youths eager to hear Socrates fire his questions and shear his colleagues of their pretentious wisdom. They love this kindly man who professes his wisdom lies only in the awareness of his ignorance. And they like to hear him talk of the virtue that is knowledge; and the universal Good which is the mother...