Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Before President Roosevelt left Newport and the America's Cup races, he shouted over the rail of the Nourmahal to newshawks, who had had some rough sailing keeping up with him: "I hear some of you boys lost your vocabularies . . . ." Presidential laughter boomed out over the water as he added: "Never mind, I'll try to find them for you on the way back...
...primary purpose is to supply the man entering Harvard with sufficient information on which to base intelligent decisions. But now the second purpose, that of acquainting the Faculty with undergraduate criticism of their courses which they might not otherwise learn, comes to the fore. It was indeed encouraging to hear of the professor who told his class yesterday morning that he intended to make some changes in his course as a result of our criticism...
...form of running the paper as a voice for all who desired to express their opinions. It will be put out on a non-partisan basis with an eye to giving anyone a chance to write for it who has determined convictions and desires to have the public hear about them...
Unless the lectures, exceedingly informal and unprepared are changed radically this year, a man taking Sociology 8 will hear the same lecture at the conclusion of the course that he heard open it. And the lone explanation of the incompatability of curtailment and expansion...