Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because she had new and important political duties to perform. The Republican National Committee had arranged for her to address the Federation of Republican Women's Clubs at Detroit early this month. Soon thereafter the Business & Professional Republican Women's Club of Boston would be waiting to hear her. The Second Lady had to get the frog out of her throat so she could give these audiences some of the oratory that lately has made her a big drawing card in the Midwest...
...still like to see prison-gates clang and hear prison-horns howl in the night, the film will probably entertain...
...still like to see prison-gates clang and hear prison-horns howl in the night, the film will probably entertain...
Scarcely less picturesque than its monetary customs are some evidences of the spirit of Piedmont. The place is an almost unique museum of Victorian morals. The faculty allows no dancing "because the trustees wouldn't hear of it." The trustees protest their indifference but say that "the parents would be outraged." Smoking is forbidden for girls and is a privilege in which men can indulge only in furtive privacy. The students are herded to church twice each Sunday...
Other "Surrealiste" manifestations have followed in rapid succession. What of the invention of the metaphor? "A blushing rose entered my chamber." Who ever heard of such a thing? Imagine the shocked surprise of the first audience to hear the first metaphor. The poet was not so prosaic as to say, "like a blushing rose." He stated out and out that a rose entered his room. Somehow that has more meaning for the imagination than to say that a girl, a lady, a woman, a wench, a female, entered his room; and it is that sense of revelation, of outer nonsense...