Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into his office to twit him about boondoggles and ancient safety pins were quickly sobered. He was mad clean through. "Investigate?" barked he. "No! There's nothing the matter. Those are good projects, all of them. People who don't understand foreign languages sometimes laugh when they hear them. Dumb people make fun of things they can't understand...
Commented New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia: "There are some people who laugh if they hear a foreign language spoken-they think that's funny." At week's end the Mayor acted. By radio he informed citizens that Oswald Whitman Knauth, Ph.D., 47, department store executive and onetime Princeton economics instructor, had been appointed "super-director" of city relief...
...could be heard scarcely ten feet away. The three men on the bench leaned forward, hands cupped behind ears. Soon the news of the witness' appearance was buzzing over Pittsburgh. Spectators began to flow in. Within an hour the courtroom was jammed with citizens eager to hear Andrew William Mellon defend himself in person against the U. S. Government's charge that he is a liar, cheat and fraud...
Last week things went better. Amid a shareholders' chorus of "Hear! Hear!" the Chairman excoriated U. S. Senators as vulgar snoops, welcomed investigation by Britain's new Royal Commission...
...Whatever else it might be named would not be so good. There is a young man who plays an accordion, and he is a very good accordion player as accordion players go. Then there are three young ladies who are lovely of look at, but not so delightful to hear. Unfortunately they can't dance, they sing. The chorus does a number to "Love and a Dime" which is a novel and very fetching affair. The young ladies prove that they really can dance, especially the blonde fourth from the right. She simply seethes with biological expressions...