Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene of disciplined might for the newsreels. The Milanese did better. They jammed into the square, clambered onto every pedestal, statue and ledge in the vicinity. The burly Duce, squinting against the refulgent sun, was obliged to wave his arms to get his flock to keep quiet and hear him roar through loudspeakers, which worked imperfectly, a promise to Laborers...
Will Rogers occupied a box with Henry Ford. Cinemactor George Raft sat with Radio's Father Coughlin. Bradenton, Fla. changed its name to Deanville. Two men died of heart failure. Children in Detroit were happy: a radio was installed in every schoolhouse auditorium to enable them to hear about it. A newborn baby was named Marvin Dean Gonda. The members of the Byrd Expedition at Little America learned that Funnyman Joe E. Brown was in Detroit. To the U. S. public, the meaning of this series of irrelevant events was completely clear. Two baseball teams were playing each other last...
...write one. Secretary Wallace dictated his 83,000 words into a dictaphone, finished the first draft in three months. Ex-President Hoover simmered over his 50,000 words for a year. As books, Bertrand Russell's is incomparably the best of the three, but more readers will prefer to hear what Authors Wallace and Hoover have to say for and against the New Deal rather than listen to the lucid skepticism of an outlander. Well aware of the wind's direction, the Book-of-the-Month Club has chosen both New Frontiers and The Challenge to Liberty as its October...
...these complexities, added to the aftermaths of war, loom large, and the voices of discouragement join with the voices of other social faiths to assert that an irreconcilable conflict has arisen in which Liberty must be sacrificed upon the altar of the Machine Age." Liberals will be surprised to hear Herbert Hoover speaking in defense of Liberalism but will soon discover that what he means by Liberalism is the old U.S. of "rugged individualism." Says...
...performance when we dropped in to see him a second time Saturday. His portrayal of the domineering father whose failure in marriage has convinced him of its futility for his children, comes through his facial expression to a large extent. No one can watch those lips utter "Do you hear me" without being impressed by their sensual cruelty. They contain the story of sexual repression which has asserted itself in a possessive love of his daughter, Elizabeth, which amounts almost to sadism...