Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made things no easier for his client. Loudly recalling that 3,265 Negroes had been lynched in the South since 1885, he cried: "That looks to me like an attempt to overthrow the Government of the United States. Suppose this defendant is a Communist. Did you ever hear of a Communist burning anyone at the stake...
Amid pandemonium a Socialist motion to lower the Imperial flag was howled down. Disgusted Socialist and Communist Deputies marched out in a body. Later that day 1,000 Monarchists met in Berlin to hear & cheer "a message from our most gracious Kaiser and King," Wilhelm II, who was represented by his fifth son, Prince Oscar...
Citizens of Sofia were on the qui vive. If they should hear an 101 gun salute that would mean that Tsaritsa Ioanna had been delivered of a Crown Prince-not by Tsar Boris of course. In his antiseptic gear he merely watched...
...their programs and went to sing in Henry Ward Beecher's Church in Brooklyn. The first time he heard them Preacher Beecher, as ardent an abolitionist as his sister Harriet Beecher Stowe, sat down and addressed a letter to his parishioners: "Avail yourselves of a rare opportunity to hear a style of music rapidly passing away, music . . . sung as only they can sing it who know how to keep time to a master's whip...
...fresh crop of governors last week began taking office throughout the Nation. Last year 35 states held gubernatorial elections through which ran the same Democratic tidal wave that swept Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the White House. In January, prime month for state inaugurals, voters repaired to their capitols to hear and see the men on whom they had staked their hopes of a change for the better. They beheld new faces not nearly so handsome as the campaign posters, heard voices containing much less self-assurance than on the stump...