Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More people went to hear Lily Pons sing than heard any other 1932 soprano. But she was new, young, pretty...
...socially minded General' I hear some of you saying with a doubtful or even scornful shrug. Yes, indeed, there has never been anything more social than the old army with compulsory service, where the poor and the rich, the officer and the rank & file, stood together and showed the spirit of comradeship in the miraculous deeds of the World...
People either know Grit intimately or know nothing whatever about it. Many a wide reader would be astonished to hear that Grit, besides being a half-century old, has a claimed circulation of some 425,000 in 48 States. 83% of its circulation in towns of less than 10,000 population...
...dead. After eleven months the deceased is presumed to be redeemed by these prayers, to pass on from Gehenna (Hell) to Heaven. On the twelvemonth, and on successive anniversaries, prayers are again offered, and Yahrzeit lamps or candles burned. Many a U. S. rabbi was shocked last week to hear that one of his fellows was bringing Kaddish into court. In Joplin, Mo. last May died Louis Bormaster, shoe merchant. To conduct the ritual prayers the family got Rabbi Harry Wolf, who had come from St. Louis to solicit funds for the Poor Orphans Home of Jerusalem. Day after Merchant...
...loomed larger and larger. Premier Herriot, ignoring the Stimson "No" to Britain's first note, prepared a note nearly identical in import, confidently submitted it to the committees on Finance and Foreign Affairs. While they grappled the problems Premier Herriot returned to the Chamber floor in time to hear Louis Marin, aged Nationalist leader, flaying any proposal to make payment. Loud applause greeted M. Marin's shout: "If we pay now, why shouldn't we pay on June 15 and for that matter for the next 60 years? We are not bound to pay because...