Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...across the health, in the rain and darkness and screaming wind, struggle the figures of two men. the wind whips and twitches at their cloaks, and the men, bending into it, move with the slowness of despair. Hear them talk as they labour through the darkness with the, subtle echo of madness in their voices, the younger one babbling pointlessly and the old one muttering courses to himself. He curses his daughter and his dismal fate, his weak age and his cracking brains and the fool beside him. Lightening picks pot their faces at odd intervals. Rain glisters the brightly...
This morning at ten will find the Vagabond in Harvard 5 to hear Professor Kittredge finish the second act of "Lear...
...When the case began as a paper fight, Judge Nields threw 1,060 affidavits out of court with orders that the deponents be brought before him so he could gauge their credibility on the witness stand (TIME, June 11). After this false start, it took nearly two months to hear the flesh & blood evidence both sides marched to the stand-the tales of union and non-union employes, the testimony of other great steelmasters, the fervid pleas of opposing counsel. Nothing seemed too trivial for Judge Nields to listen to with painstaking care...
...Baton Rouge Aquarium in an Attempt to Get in the National Swim.' A shark named Farley," continues the narrator, "is threatening to gobble up the miserable invader" . . . And won't the senators howl with glee, and the radio listeners each rock back and forth in helpless mirth when they hear a few sombre stooges inquire "what about the public works program and the future...
...general consent, Oliver Wendell Holmes will be ranked high among the ten greatest judges in American judicial history. Indeed, he is recognized throughout the English-speaking world as one of a handful of leaders in Angio-American law. We commonly hear of him as a great dissenter. But in his career of half a century on the bench, he left his mark on every part of the law. Moreover, his dissenting opinions on questions of the reasonableness of legislation are proving starting points for constructive reasoning, and he is likely to be counted a maker of the bill of rights...