Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will add that seventeen are taking practice lessons in cookery, nine in dress-cutting and three in millinery. For this piece of friendly information we ask nothing but thanks, and some day will describe the doings of the embryo dressmakers and milliners, as the young cooks have been already heard from...
Truly "every shining hour" at Lasell is crowded with something to be seen, or heard, or learned, until one begins to wonder how much of all this rich material one's mind is laying up in store, and how much it treacherously lets slip, since minds are sometimes quite as lazy as their owners. To be sure it's a very deplorable habit, but one which we are obliged to recognize...
...feelings of the great Sunflower have been hurt by the newspaper talk. He complains: "I heard much about the character of American journalism in England. If you expect English gentlemen to come to your country, especially gentlemen of letters and art, you must improve the character of your journalism. I do not intend to come to this country again until this thing is changed." Which is certainly a delightfully naive speech for Oscar to make...
...news reached Mrs. Garfield she was quiet and composed. When the result was read at the Opera House and Academy of Music in Cleveland the audience rose and cheered. In New York the verdict was the universal topic of conversation, and people congratulated each other wherever the news was heard. In Washington the result was universally approved and the jury highly commended. In fact, the news spread over the country like wild-fire, and was received on all sides with satisfaction...
...pleasure derived by the patrons of the series of concerts now being given in Sanders Theatre has been much enhanced by the introduction of a soloist for each evening. Now that we have heard Mrs. Henschel, all would certainly be pleased to hail Mr. Henschel also in a vocal solo. The exhibition of his rare powers in this direction would be of as much gratification to his audience as his success as an orchestra leader has been, and it is to be hoped that we may hear him as a soloist at an early date...