Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trials, in Brooklyn last January, his friends found the great orator from Idaho far from impressive. The trouble was, he thought, that he had to pause too often to consult his manuscript. To Youngstown he went with no manuscript. For 80 minutes he spoke extemporaneously. Those who went to hear him in the expectation of being deeply stirred by the fervor of his words, left Stambaugh Auditorium inexplicably disappointed...
...motored to spend a quiet country weekend with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Behind him he left instructions that he could not be reached by telephone unless the call was from Berlin. Exhausted Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain who, like Adolf Hitler, finds music a powerful restorative, went to hear Beethoven's Quartet in A Minor (Opus No. 132). "I think," said the Chancellor of the Exchequer, "that it is the most soothing music ever composed...
...three occasions during these three concluding days of the year-long commemoration of the 300th anniversary, the alumni will meet as a body. They will hear President Conant, administrative officers and undergraduates describe the policies of the College today...
...true, I hear, that our knowledge is not increased by such deductions for I must already know that Hypatia is a mortal woman before I can intuit the first proposition: "All women are mortal." But, ye faithless ones, must mere logic displace the happy truth that all genius lives forever in the sentiments and ideas it inspires? And was not Hypatia a genius? Was she not beautiful? And modest? And intelligent? And was she not done to death in oyster shells? Holy fishes, is this not enough for immortality? Bless my soul, I should like to teach those girls...
Whereupon, all the afternoon I to tandem in the country; and I did hear a robin and see a crocus and a beautiful day it was. By and by out of the clear sky--tells me Wellesley College girls are giving up their desserts and the price thereof to be given to flood relief. So we to get a chocolate and thence took to talking about the "Veterans of Future Wars"; and that they one day will spill blood on foreign soil and be the fathers of many children; and I still think this is mighty fine arguing...