Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just as mortals suffer differently from the immortal gods, so you have a different view from me of Parliamentary debates. You hear too little, and I hear too much. ... If by microphone amplification we were able to make M. P.s' words more audible, it might be that you would overhear things which would destroy your ingenuousness...
Ashurst has been senior Senator from Arizona since its Statehood. He likes to hear himself called "the silver-tongued sunbeam of Painted Desert." His favorite anecdote surrounds his biggest moment: the day in 1912 when a Senate expecting to see an Arizona Senator sworn in wearing cowboy chaps, high-heeled boots and bandanna, was dazzled at the resplendent perfection of a tall gentleman impeccably garbed in sugar-scoop coat, striped trousers, wing collar, sawed-off vest and ribboned pince-nez. "I mowed them down," chuckles Ashurst...
...Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman and 1,000 followers, many of whom traveled across the land on a 22-car "MRA Special." In the Hollywood Bowl, the Buchmanites sat on the stage beneath the acoustic shell newly labeled NEW MEN . . . NEW NATIONS . . . A NEW WORLD. To see and hear them, 25,000 Southern Californians jammed the Bowl, 10,000 more were turned away...
...Atlanta's hotels, boardinghouses, Baptist homes, tourist camps. These were '"messengers" from far-flung local churches which, never bound by anything Baptist conventions say or do, are the cornerstone of the Baptist faith. In its week of oldtime oratory and hymn-singing, the Atlanta congress was to hear much of the need for Baptist evangelism, for Baptist freedom of worship in a troubled world. The messengers, most of them sober small-town businessman and their sober wives, eschewed Atlanta's worldly amusements, fraternized with one another and with messengers from overseas. In Atlanta were Baptists from Rumania...
...something beyond clucking or smiling over-a disturbingly prophetic cartoon. Published in 1919, it showed Wilson, Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Orlando leaving the Peace Conference, the treaty on the floor, a child labeled "1940 Class" standing with head bowed behind a pillar. Caption: THE TIGER: "Curious! I seem to hear a child weeping...