Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Comptroller has had his gentler side. The visitor to his office was sometimes startled to hear a soft chuckle break the icy atmosphere of his little realm. The secretaries who have felt his disapproval would be surprised at the solicitude beneath the unbending surface. Yet few associates would deny the truth of the prophecy that when the Revolution comes, Mr. Endicott will be the first to die on the barricades...
...white delegation, he asked to be heard because he was, he claimed, a South Carolina State Senator in the carpetbag days from 1872 to 1876. The South Carolinians were not entirely willing to admit his claims; State records for that period were too hazy. The legislators voted to hear him "but not as an ex-Senator of South Carolina...
...town the station agent ran out of tickets and had to scrawl railway passes on odd bits of cardboard. By train, by bus, by tram, by motor, by cart and by foot, every Belgian who could move went to Brussels last week to see a great King buried, to hear a new King proclaimed...
...world has agreed with King Edward. Cinema audiences hear it with half the British newsreels. Noel Coward made it the theme tune of his Cavalcade (TIME, Jan. 16, 1933). And though Sir Edward tired of it (he omits it from the list of his compositions in British Who's Who) Pomp and Circumstance has the lusty. red-blooded quality which characterizes the best of Elgar's music. When he was recognized by the throne, Elgar started writing too much occasional music. He celebrated King George's coronation, his visit to India in 1912, his recovery from pneumonia...
...Robber Barons will take its place on many a carefully considered library shelf. Though Author Josephson has an ax to grind, its edge is no longer considered socially dangerous. And though, like a good Jew, he keeps his hat on in these sacred precincts, few will hear any bees buzzing within it. ". . . We have tried in so far as possible to write of them [the Robber Barons] without anger, to paint them as no more 'wicked' than they or their contemporaries actually were, though we are aware now of living in another moral climate and in the midst...