Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visa on evidence of fraud: after swearing to the U.S. Consulate-General in London that he did not advocate the overthrow of the U.S. Government by force or violence, John Strachey had become an official of the British Communist Party. Mr. Strachey denounced this charge as false, demanded a hearing from the State Department. The Department frostily agreed to grant one in London. But the American Civil Liberties Union and other outraged liberals began wiring Franklin Roosevelt and the Department of Labor, which straightway granted Writer Strachey a hearing on a technicality having nothing to do with Communism...
...swimming in the summer, tobogganing in the winter, and dancing all the year round to anybody's music, although my weakness is Calloway. Want to be in on a secret? Yes?--'I'd give my best pal away for Calloway.' (Yeah, man!!). His music does something to me. I hear that 'swing' is going out of style. Darn it! (oops, pardon my French). What are your views on music and orchestras...
...could go on and on, but the announcer says my time is up. So, until pou hear the familiar 'hi de hi,' you can be certain two to one that it's Station D-I-X-I B-E-L-L-E signing off. Sincerely, Dixi Belle...
...Blaik's five-year record shows 32 wins, three ties, and six defeats in 41 games. Altogether the Greenmen have tallied 1173 points to the opposition's 236. In their last unbeaten stretch, through their last 19 games, then scores are 525 to opponents' 92. "Sufnny we don't hear more about...
Today at high noon by the chronometer, the Vagabond will cruise to Robinson Hall to hear Professor Martin Wagner, of the Department of Regional Planning, lecture (without slides) on the derivation of the principal visual elements of modern architecture from the changed conditions of living characteristc of the twentieth century. Bolstered by this new knowledge, Vag, is sure that he will be able to steer a better architectural course around these new building-islands which are springing up in these University waters...