Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harold F. McCormick knows what to expect in this most melancholy season of the year. Last fortnight, when he heard that Ganna Walska was coming back from Paris, he waited further developments with a heart made heavy by foreboding and cheered only by the vague hope that perhaps, this once, Ganna Walska would be able to come home, like other people, without eccentric fussing or publicity...
...scouring the country for a woman lawyer to put into his sub-Cabinet, President Harding heard about Mrs. Willebrandt in such glowing terms as only California's Senator Hiram Johnson knows how to use. President Harding feared she was "too young" (32 years) but appointed...
Clubman. Joel D. Kerper, who caters to the drinking elite of Philadelphia, heard his tasty wares championed in the courtroom. Thirteen of his fastidious clientele testified. Gardner Cassatt, banker, member of the Rabbit and other Philadelphia clubs, had known 'Legger Kerper well, patronized him for over 5 years. Last May he bought several cases of champagne at $92 apiece, two cases...
Liberals began their campaign, last week, coincidentally with Conservatives. Said Mr. David Lloyd George, in Welsh, to an audience at Llangefni, Wales: "You have just heard me speak in support of my daughter Megan, who has been selected as the prospective Liberal candidate for Parliament from this division. . . . I am supporting her candidacy not because she is my daughter but because she is the choice of the party. . . . I cannot be responsible for anything she may say or do if elected...
Later King Alfonso went to Paris and stayed incognito at a hotel in the Rue de Rivoli-not at the Ritz as is Queen Victoria Eugénie's wont. His Majesty heard of another disaster on the outskirts of Melillo, in Spanish Morocco, where 57 persons were reported killed last week and some 200 injured, when a Spanish arsenal exploded. For the killed or injured Moroccans, however, the King of Spain was not reported to have shed tears...