Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last January his friends were shocked to hear of Louis Greenfield's arrest for manslaughter. He had called in police and showed them how he chloroformed Jerry, now grown to a 17O-lb. six-footer. He explained that he had done it to put the boy out of misery and, as a final horror, because a doctor had warned him that the imbecile boy, whose body was grown and whose mental age was two, might attack his own mother...
...Shame!" Lady Astor, no mean heckler herself, asked for silence first applause afterward. The chairwoman asked for traditional British fair play. "What about assaults on women and children?" screamed the female Conservatives. The Astor comeback was not up to standard: "The more I see of you, the more I hear of you, it is obvious that you are getting a bit mixed." The ladies clapped rhythmically. Then a bell rang and told her the time allotted for her speech was over anyway...
After long flights at high altitudes, many commercial pilots are temporarily deaf, hear waterfalls or hissing and crackling sounds that make them sour-tempered and touchy. Army and Navy pilots have the same sensations after tactical flights involving high-speed dives. These sensations were long ago traced to failure of the Eustachian tubes-passages connecting the throat and middle ear-to equalize ear pressures with changes in altitude...
...festival of choral music. Delegations of husky Lutheran choristers from all the surrounding States had come to St. Olaf to sing. Together they made a huge chorus of 1,400 voices. When that chorus boomed forth its repertory of old German chorals, it was something to hear...
...became Poet in Residence successively at Amherst, University of Michigan and Harvard. Crowds turned out, as they still do, to hear his lectures and readings of his own poetry. In a creaking, cranky voice as of one grinding his own poetic ax, and with the mannerisms of a Yankee hired man who knows more than he lets on and somewhat despises his boss for knowing less, he dropped hints that poetry was the most important thing in the world. Then he would read from his own poems, as evidence...