Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long lines of men wound out of Germany and Von Kluck began his race for Paris and the channel ports. But great events swing upon the most trivial axes. A handful of slow moving men came out to meet the onrushing soldiers and the world came to hear of "little Belgium," of Louvain, and of Albert, King of the Belgians...
...glad to hear that Rev. Gilberg's relatives are all well. Hoping you are the same...
...join in the frantic applause. Then you watch him, this little man in his plain suit, standing there modestly, almost humbly. He speaks in German, not very well, pausing occasionally or even asking a word from those beside him. At first, though the silence is complete, you can hardly hear him. Then his voice strengthens and you listen with feverish eagerness for his message...
...person who composed Wednesday's Gantry-like denouncement of Nemo, and deification of America's Winged Hypocrite, always bases his judgment of people's character on what they write, I should like extremely to hear his description of James Joyee's home-life. It would certainly make Rabelais and Petronius look like rank amateurs...
Authoress Mayo was fond of the A. E. F., still is. "In eight months spent Overseas in the company of our private soldiers, not once did I hear from an American doughboy a phrase coarse in spirit, or an oath." She thinks the boys came home bursting with patriotism, eager to continue serving their country. Since understanding, idealistic leadership was lacking, the returned crusaders disintegrated into citizens no better than stay-at-homes. Distressed that the A. E. F. should have degenerated into the American Legion and the Bonus Army, Authoress Mayo sought the answer in the pension system, investigated...