Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt, if he lives as long as most Presidents, won't live much longer, and so has nothing to lose. But I and my friends have to fight the war. In as much as I am single, 23, and ripe for the army, I'd much rather hear a little reverse propaganda on the whole business. Besides I'd rather kiss a pretty girl without joining the army-I might have the pleasure more often...
...Millville, N. J., he worked his way through Swarthmore College, played basketball and football there. Once, in a huff, he stripped off his basketball suit, marched naked from the gym. When he was an economics instructor at Carnegie Tech, he had the fortitude to take his class to hear Socialist Eugene V. Debs. At 43, he looks like a Sunday-supplement caricature of a radical...
...broken all records for non-stop membership in Parliament,* but 76-year-old Lloyd George was still being criticized. Two things he still does magnificently: deliver orations and cultivate flowers. M. P.s now grumble because he always leaves the Commons immediately after his orations, never waiting to hear lesser orators express themselves. Amateur gardeners near his estate in Churt, Surrey, also grumble that his great fame, not his great flowers, takes so many flower show prizes away from others. But even these complaints are testimony to the fact that David Lloyd George has been one of the foremost...
...Small local stations have greater appeal to low-income groups than to higher earning brackets. Likely reasons: the poor listener likes to hear of advertisers with whom he is familiar; foreign born like local programs in their own language; farmers like to hear folksy shows, Bible-hours that never get on the chains...
...mother: she is proud of her pointed nose, "mentions the word 'FAT' almost 8 times per day." What she likes best""'is to let father sit in a chair and not reading anything . . . and hear her talking without any moving or uttering a sound...