Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seated in the Canadian Senate, Secretary Kellogg heard a speech denouncing the thought of Canada's annexation by the U. S. as a "bogey" kept alive by Canadian alarmists. He lunched with Prime Minister King, dined with U. S. Minister William Phillips. At a state dinner given by the Government, he bespoke "rivalry without bitterness" and proceeded to a reception given by Governor-General and Viscountess Willingdon. Returning home after four days, he brought a thorough going invitation to President Coolidge to visit Canada...
...appointments in the Senior class organization were announced yesterday by W. G. Saltonstall, first marshal of the Class of 1928. Hamilton Heard '28 of Brookline has been selected as chairman of the Class Day Committee to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of C. A. Pratt...
...Junior Dance is the announcement of patronesses who will preside at the function. The feature of the festivity, obtained after several days of investigation on the part of the 1929 Dance Committee, will be Markel's Society Orchestra, from which will proceed the first strains of New York syncopation heard in Memorial Hall in many years...
What was a songwriter at best that Vienna should be mindful of him, Vienna who had her Beethoven there just around the corner making big symphonies and an opera? The Schubert operas with their trashy librettos were chaff compared to it. No one ever heard his symphonies, or of him, an awkward fellow, a song writer...
...motor, which propelled Lindbergh, Chamberlin, Levine,'Byrd, Maitland & Hegenberger, Brock & Schlee across sundry oceans and continents. A tactless person once asked the designer of the Wright motor why he did not receive more glory for making this horse for heroes. The designer's answer was brief: "Whoever heard of the name of Paul Revere's horse?" Not for his modesty but for "the greatest achievement in aviation in America . . . demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year," the National Aeronautic Association awarded the Collier Trophy last week to Charles Lanier Lawranee, designer of the Wright Whirlwind motor...