Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They haven't touched a word of it," declared Mr. Blinn, "and what is more, a minister came up to me the other day and said that he saw or heard nothing wrong in the play. Many people have thought that the play was a little risque, but with the recommendation of a minister behind it, even Boston cannot make a fuss...
...would migrate to more agreeable climes have been pretty well blasted by the crowded condition of the Library and the very normal term-time appearance of the Square; Boston hostesses and Yard cops will testify that things have been "quiet" in a social way; and the bootleggers have been heard to complain of the lack of conviviality registered at the University...
...Vienna heard him first, then Berlin, Paris, London. The Steinways brought him to Manhattan in 1891. He played in the old Madison Square Garden Concert Hall but it would not hold the crowds, and Carnegie Hall was for the first time used for piano recitals. Paderewski became the rage from one end of the country to the other...
...friend and adviser is a fine man, but not in her social plane. She is too generous to care for that. One knows at the beginning that she will marry him at the end. She does. There is her mysterious half-brother from the West who, not having been heard of for 20 years, comes back and makes a fine figure in the village. Of course Mary and her friend David Cummings distrust him. Naturally they are right in the end when Benjamin Brewster turns out to have been a through cheat. Naturally everything ends happily...
...rises tonight and enchanting woman awaiting love and a lover by the sea. For a man "large and lovely and strong," she gasps. Man comes large and strong. His lovely quality is never revealed, however, for he stayed not long enough. He was too deaf to be lovely and heard not the final gasps of a child-bearing woman smothered in a comforting...