Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women and children sat in hot rooms, gazing out over the fields that shimmered in the heat. They, too, seemed to share the defeat which has been administered to the land. . . . You can hear a sermon in the church any Sunday morning or a discourse on the courthouse steps any evening at all, questioning God's approval of crop reduction, herd reduction. The theme is always the same...
...Sweet cut into the tough capsule, Warden Lawes could hear the instruments grating. The Surgeon probed the hole, felt a hard mass. With forceps he pulled at the mass. It came loose, a strange-looking something the size of a plum. Surgeon Sweet paused several seconds while the Negro artist sketched the "tumor" and cavity, then tossed the "growth" into a catch basin, reamed the cavity in Warden Lawes's leg, put in a drain and some stitches, and was done...
Some 1,100 persons from the U. S., Mexico and Europe attended the convention. Most of them were set apart by inability to speak or hear or both but their chief convention problem was universal-jobs. They were worried by a tendency among employers during Depression to refuse jobs to deaf persons. To refute the commonest excuse offered N. A. D.'s retiring President William Shaub of St Louis last week reported on a 40-State survey which showed that the compensation and liability laws of not a single State discriminate against the deaf...
...close a concert in Rosario, Argentina, Violinist Mischa Elman played as an encore his own composition "Tango." Wildly the audience demanded to hear it again. Elman declined to repeat, played instead a dozen different encores. Exhausted, he bowed his way off the stage. Up over the footlights and into Elrnan's dressing room swarmed the insistent audience. Seizing the violinist, they dragged him back on the stage, pleaded until he repeated "Tango...
Plump, dewlapped Judge Caverly beetled through his spectacles in amazement at the couple, said something secret. Newsman John Origen Herrick and Newswoman Genevieve Forbes dashed happily away, were married on schedule, had three whole days' honeymoon. They were back on the job Sept. 10, just in time to hear Judge Caverly sentence Loeb & Leopold to life imprisonment...