Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgan hearings were held in the same caucus room, with its enormous cut-glass chandeliers, its baronial doors, its high windows overlooking a courtyard fountain. But now thick carpets covered the stone floor. On rows and rows of folding chairs sat the same sort of sightseers who had plowed their way in past bucking policemen. But now a loud speaker system helped them hear better. At the same long committee table sat elderly Senators, poking and prodding with questions to make the day's headlines. But now not one of them knew which way the evidence would turn next...
...from the Ottawa Conference, and resigned as Lord Privy Seal (TIME, Oct. 10). Now Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw. he has been removed to the more peaceful reaches of the House of Lords, but his tongue is as sharp as ever. The Lords of Britain sat up last week to hear the little Viscount, stumping his canes, give his old friend as stinging a tongue-lashing as British reporters could remember...
...ladies, 3,000 of them, had come from all over the U. S. for the biennial convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs. They congregated in front of the University of Minnesota's Northrop Memorial Auditorium, lined up behind their State banners and marched inside to hear the Minneapolis Symphony play the opening concert. For seven days thereafter music and musical talk flowed like liquor at an American Legion convention...
...defaulted debt to the U. S. at once. Daladier and disciples are for nonpayment. As spokesman for the Right, Former Finance Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin popped up in the Chamber of Deputies last week and asked a number of questions that the world at large dearly wished to hear answered...
...Mobile, the Mobile Register suggested a slogan for National Cotton Week: SEE NO WEEVIL, HEAR NO WEEVIL, SPEAK NO WEEVIL...