Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will wait up for a message from President Roosevelt," he cried, "even if I have to sit up until four in the morning. . . . The moment I hear I shall let you all know. . . . Goodnight. . . . Goodnight...
...week what would they have found on the newsstands? ¶ A Digest whose cover consisted of a photograph of President Roosevelt, topped by a red band. ¶ On the first inside page, an article "Written for The Literary Digest by J. Frederick Essary." (Dr. Funk: "Adam, did you ever hear of original contributions in the Digest?" Dr. Wagnalls: "Never before, Isaac.") ¶ Clean typography. ¶ Staff-written articles based on newspaper news. ¶ A Washington letter signed "Diogenes." ¶ Sport and cinema reviews, specially written and signed. ¶ Good old Digest pleasantries. ("Beauties in distress," was what the Digest called...
...outstanding a public service. Last week in the course of that service he had the pleasure of shaking hands with famed Partner Otto Kahn of America's second biggest private banking house: Kuhn, Loeb. Not having met Mr. Kahn before, he was not only pleased but surprised to hear the banker, who prides himself on being one of the artistic intelligentsia, lard his testimony day after day with such comments as the good Senator would have expected to meet in any "liberal" paper...
...performance Salmaggi put on at Soldier Field last autumn, ends its Hippodrome run this week on the crest of financial success. During the summer Salmaggi intends to put on open-air Aïda in Newark, Boston, Pittsburgh, in the dirigible hangar in Akron. Between times he will hear new singers, rehearse diligently, get new scenery together for the autumn when he will give two months of opera at the Hippodrome. Backers Mayberry and Carroll care nothing about spreading culture (the tin-cup cry of the Metropolitan). But if their autumn venture is as successful as the one just ending...
...Paris, Psychologist Henri Pieron measured the amount of light which made him see, the amount of noise which made him hear, the amounts of energy which stirred his senses of taste, smell, touch. He examined the brains of beasts and men and concluded, he said in Chicago last week, that for every kind of outside impulse to which man is sensitive there is a particular, infinitesimal cell in his brain. We do not see ultraviolet light or feel infrared heat simply because we have no brain cells to receive those impressions. The impressions which do stimulate our brain affect...