Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From Secretary Wilbur, last fortnight, President Coolidge heard that Augustino Sandino, the Nicaraguan "rebel" leader, in whose suppression the U. S. Marines have been engaged for nearly two years, had at last become discouraged and had "disappeared;" that his forces were retreating from Nicaragua toward the Honduran border. Two days after this Wilbur report came news that a squadron of five Marine airplanes had thoroughly "strafed" a rebel camp, near where Nicaragua ends and Honduras begins. ¶ In President Coolidge's name, congratulations were cabled to President Charles Dunbar, Burgess King of Liberia, on the 81st anniversary of that...
...inconsistency of such nullification by citizens who prate about the sanctity of the 18th Amendment. Last week's dark plaintiffs in Texas will not have time before November to carry their cases to the U. S. Supreme Court. But predictions were made that when the appeals are heard, the South's constitutional dilemma will grow more acute than it has been for a generation...
...trains." Oddly enough such displays of temper proved extremely popular among stolid Hollanders, who rejoiced that their Crown Princess seemed to possess all the characteristic dash and spirit of the Royal House of Orange. Wise Queen Emma curbed her daughter so adroitly that the present Queen Wilhelmina was once heard to exclaim with girlish penitence. "Oh, I've been naughty again! Mother says so with her eyes." Queen Mother Emma. The death of King Willem (1890) and the ascension of Queen Wilhelmina reduced Widow Emma to the obscurity of Queen Motherhood. Withdrawing to her own palace, she placidly watched...
...John Pierpont Morgan's lithe, athletic and slightly deaf cousin, Joseph Clark Grew, the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, heard a loud cry for help last week while ferrying across the Bosporus, leaped in, rescued the Turkish lady...
Lost in the Arctic. In 1913, Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson led an expedition for the Canadian government into the Arctic. Four men became cut off from the main party and were never heard from. Ten years later, H. A. and Sidney Snow set out with cameras to discover what happened to the four men. Lost in the Arctic is an authentic and thrilling record of the Snow expedition. They went up the west coast of Alaska, hunting whales and walruses, lassoing a 2,200-pound polar bear and taking him aboard ship alive, hobnobbing with colonies of seals, strange birds, Eskimos...