Word: heard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assistant and Lima Conference companion, fox-faced Adolf Berle, now occupies the Stimson Washington mansion of Woodley, where Mr. Hull plays croquet weekly. The mild-mannered Secretary, one of the world's most fluent monotone cussers, addresses his opponent's croquet balls (if people have heard him right), saying: "Hitler, you son-of-a-bitch," and "Mussolini, damn you!" before whanging them into Coventry...
...fortnight ago, attracted the largest crowd in its history, more than 10,000 people. Last week, when bolt-upright, beaky, baldish Sir Adrian Boult, music director of British Broadcasting Corp., opened his second week with the Chicago Symphony, a heat wave melted the attendance. Those who braved the swelter heard, and lustily applauded the first complete U. S. performance of a top-notch piece of movie music: a seven-part suite from Arthur Bliss's sound-track for the H. G. Wells fantasy, Things to Come...
...President's revolving, self-liquidating Great White Rabbit of 1939 ($3,860,000,000 loan program), nothing was heard last week except a resolution put through the Senate by anti-Roosevelt Senator Byrd of Virginia, asking the Treasury to itemize some $8,000,000,000 of extra-Budget financing already entered into by the Government. Senator Byrd's point: the 1939 rabbit is superfluous...
...Tribune, pawing an A. P. regional report for dirt on the New Deal, let out a roar. Its 857,963 readers were informed that, although one Edward M. Dieter had been listed as postmaster for Woodstock, Ill. (pop. 5,471), no one in Woodstock or Washington had ever heard of Mr. Dieter. After assuring itself in Washington that the Woodstock appointment had gone as scheduled to William W. Desmond, the Tribune exulted: WOODSTOCK GETS POSTMASTER, BUT WHO'S DIETER...
...named Charles Henry Fisher suddenly remarked: "If I had money I would invest it in Soviet bonds. They are paying 7%." The manager of Bellingham's Herald, angular old Frank Sefrit, turned fierce eyes on him and barked: "That's the most radical statement I have ever heard made in this club:" Tapping the educator on the chest, he added ominously: "Fisher, I'm agin you and I hope you know what that means." By last week it meant a national educational scandal and a first-class political battle in the State of Washington...