Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night Reggie called for Mrs. Amelia Waldron in a curtained car and drove her to a hideaway on the city's outskirts. There was Frankie. He told his stepmother excitedly: "I'm going to Russia. You'll hear from me." That was the last Amelia ever saw of him. She did hear from him by way of an occasional postcard from Europe. Some years later a Los Angeles lawyer told her to stop around at his office, there confided to her that Reggie was happy, that Timothy was learning to speak Russian, and that Frankie was enrolled...
Cooling Off. At first, most of his listeners strained to hear. Then some of those out of range resumed their interrupted conversations, while others, in range, stared across their food & drink in joyless apathy. When Artie picked up his clarinet for a solo, his fans perked up; but out came Nicolai Berezowsky's concerto, and interest palled. Then flashbulbs began to pop; first-night celebrities queued up to have their pictures taken with new Cinemactor Kirk (Champion) Douglas...
Moaned Artie: "I was standing up there with egg on my face trying to play and I couldn't hear a thing...
Rewards & Quests. As an example of failure, Bell cites the modern college freshmen as he sees them. "They cannot look at a thing and tell you what they see; listen to sounds and know what they hear; by the touch truly perceive form; sense how others feel and why; read, write, speak with any sure knowledge of how words are to be handled . . . think in general terms as distinct from specific and concrete particulars...
When Morgan wants to make fun of Judge Anthony or Gabriel Heatter or Luella Parsons, the Messrs, Anthony and Heatter and Miss Parsons hurt for a long time thereaftr. Once you hear Morgan spoof scientific experts you are pretty shame-faced the next time you take a Reader's Digest cure for acne seriously...