Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hear No Evil. In Topeka, Kans., when Federal District Judge Arthur Stanley told a witness to "speak up," a juror broke in to say: "It doesn't matter, your honor; I wasn't listening anyhow...
John Heffernan's portrayal of Larry, Hickey's foil, was more than adequate, although he did curious things with his face in moments of crisis. He and his crony Nick Smith (Don Parrit) were often hard to hear. The other half-dozen inmates were generally convincing, except Robert Foley's Jimmy...
Only 800 could crowd into the great public hall in Tokyo where the lottery took place last week, but 28,000 on the outside were waiting to hear the results. The lottery was no ordinary one, and its prize was precious indeed. It offered nothing less than a place in one of Tokyo's streamlined new apartment houses...
...intrepid admen whose clients are the shaggy, beady-eyed aurochs of the auto industry. It offers a notable addition to the stream-of-consciousness technique ("If I left now, with no notice, they'd be in a terrible mess' ... Just thinking about it, he could hear Jack Reynolds' ulcer dripping on the floor"), winds up with the same old fadeout: hero and buddy in a rose-covered ad agency of their...
Addicts of Churchilliana will read this valet's valedictory for bits of backstage gossip like this, yet the book is more than just another footnote to the Churchill legend. It stands in its own right as a comedy of character. On foreign travel Norman hardly ever went to hear the guv'nor's speeches-he heard enough of his master's voice as it was. Yet Churchill always gravely consulted the young man after a speech: "I thought it went rather well, didn't you?" Invariably, Norman would answer, "Yes sir, very well indeed." Norman...