Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tell you the best story I ever heard, even if it is no me. This chap was one of those who think it the thing to go a-visiting the instructor, making throaty suggestions about the mark he has received. I remembered the fellow from midyears. I therefore told him, when he asked for my office house, that on such a point as this he must see the professor, who would, I knew, send him back to me. I knew, by the way, that the professor was already on his way for a sabbatical study of Chinese temples...
...event was this: George Remus, one-time Illinois lawyer, then millionaire Ohio bootlegger, then convict, then insensate wife-murderer, who was judged guiltless but mentally insecure in Cincinnati (TIME, Jan. 2), and who was confined in the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Lima -this man heard muffled cries in the asylum. A huge, lunatic Negro had over- powered one of the guards and .was deliberately strangling him. Was it sane courage or his own deranged brute instinct that inspired burly George Remus to leap at the Negro maniac, to smash and batter the Negro with his fists until...
...Widow's had this question cold--a' babbled of green fields. Bibliography appended to the examination paper of William Demipest, undergraduate, imbecile, procrastinator. Question One. Lecture delivered at the Manter Hall School the night before last. Question Two. Lecture delivered at the Manter Hall School last night; not heard by William Demipest, but revealed to him by the man across the hall, whose memory was doubtless inaccurate. Cad! Putting the blame on some one else. Question Three. William Demipest has no authority for his remarks except, possibly...
Perry S. Williams, Minneapolis newspaperman, heard the story, mulled over it, embroidered it and made it into a libretto. More than a dozen years ago, it came to the attention of Composer Alberto Bimboni, who saw the possibilities in an opera with an Indian subject. He took one old Indian theme here, made an aria from it for Winona, took another there and made a chorus for the warriors. So it went, until the whole, bound neatly enough together, was presented in November, 1926, in Portland, Oregon, to the considerable credit of composer and librettist...
...menacing visitor first devoted himself to the South Entry and reaped a royal harvest in every room which he cound enter, working from the top floor down. Some men heard him, but thought it was their roommate, just getting in: others heard him but were afraid to get out of bed. Not so with one daring student on the first floor. Hearing strange noises in the study he picked up a bedroom slipper and clad in his pink pajamas ventured from the sanctity of his Doudoir. He came fact to face with a slim, dark, foreign man with a strong...