Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...missed a Yale-Harvard game in 30 years; and J. Murray Mitchell who was to have been host to a large luncheon-&-game party at Cambridge. (He had their tickets in his pocket.) But all gathered good-humoredly about the radios in the smoking room and afterdeck to hear the play-by-play reports. When the Hochheimer was gone the drinkers turned to rum, were finally reduced to gin before the S. S. Pan America returned to Manhattan having, as Author Elliott White Springs said, "sailed a wonderful game." Banker Harvey D. Gibson observed: "We didn't bargain...
Funnyman Will Rogers sailed for the Orient with his friend Correspondent Floyd Gibbons to report the Manchurian hostilities. Said he: "Japan is going to hear the awfulest compliments, as I hear they don't stand for any wisecracks...
...majority of Stanford students' activities take place on the campus. Even their musical life is brought to them, for each fall a Concert Series is given in the basketball pavilion--it sounds rather dreary, but it isn't to those who will suffer to hear Tibbet, Onegin, and Heiflz...
Delegates will pay $2 apiece to attend a banquet in Eliot House and hear a speech on "Making Both Ends Meet Under the Present Conditions." Meanwhile, outdoors, the great searchlights on Harvard's four house-towers will light the sky. Bright prismatic beams will cheer the unemployed and guide stray geese going South...
...relentless researcher, he has fleshed out the earlier Roosevelt admirably but his penchant for politics has somewhat blurred the man in the White House and after. There are few scenes and little of the colorful personality that made T. R. so dear to the public. Through Biographer Pringle you hear Roosevelt more often than...