Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What a queer feeling when from the windows of your apartment you hear the roar of a Chinese plane-hear the Japanese anti-air craft guns- see the red and white tracer bullets some of which seem to be coming in your direction-to see the searchlight of the Japanese ships trying to pick up the plane and later actually seeing the Chinese plane not over 250 yd. from your apartment...
Lucy Chase Wayne (Kay Francis) likes to sit in the gallery and hear promising young Senators read off the speeches she has written for them. Knowing that many destinies which flower in the forum originate in the boudoir, she plans to put her husband, burly Secretary of State Wayne (Preston Foster) in the White House. Obstacle to this plan is blonde Irene Hibbard (Verree Teasdale), another bedroom statesman...
...feeling has shifted, and now is that the advertising has been dignified, that the Y.A.A. gets an additional $30,000, and the Alumni hear all the games
...This has been going on for twenty-six years now, and Copey's drawing power is growing greater with each year. It is not because he is the former Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory that Copey's annual rendition regularly attracts crowds of Yardlings; they can and do hear accomplished speakers almost daily! It is not because the selections he reads are exciting or dramatic; they are not. But both the selections and Copey himself have definite appeal, something deeper than acting, something more moving than the words he utters...
...woman, once false, be true in love? The answer is no more known today than in the Fourteenth Century. But the Vagabond is willing to listen to reason, and this morning he will go to Emerson A at 9.00 o'clock to hear Fred N. Robinson, Gurney Professor of English Literature, read from and talk about the Troilus and Criscyde...