Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Incidentally, it was at Block Island on this occasion where I ran into a very "seagoing" Chief Boatswainsmate whom I had heard lecture on Dutch and Flemish Painting at Princeton. There, however, he was known as Professor Frank Mather of the Art Department...
Robinson: "... I have heard the Senator from Alabama a dozen times during the last year make what he calls his anti-Catholic speech. I have heard him denounce the Catholic Church and the Pope of Rome and the cardinal and the bishop and the priest and the nun until I am sick and tired of it, as a Democrat...
...Governor of South Dakota. It was the first time he had seen an ocean, or a razor-shell clam or an undertow or a beach littered with bottles, fruit crates, oil dregs, clinkers. The Governor of South Dakota is a witty man, as all can testify who heard his speech at the Jackson Dinner in Washington last fortnight. Confronted with an ocean, he said: "It looked pretty...
...while the report was current, officials received applications from ten hardy persons anxious to succeed Mr. Elliott. One man said, "I want to better myself." This man, who meant that he sought to make a better living, had doubtless heard that Executioner Elliott receives $150 per corpse; had perhaps read that Executioner Elliott earned, in a single day in 1927, $900 for giving "jolts" to three Massachusetts convicts in the morning, in the evening three more in New York...
...Panama, last week, a reunion was in progress. Workers on the great Panama Canal had convened from distant places to recall the days when "The Colonel" moved mountains; to recall how he heard their complaints, helped marry them, fathered them for seven sweating years. From Manhattan came a telegram that "The Colonel," whose ill health had prohibited his passage to the reunion, had died...