Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...composer, come for his first U. S. visit. She received him royally, gave him her best when she put her Symphony at his disposal, turned out then in great numbers to hear him conduct his own works in a manner almost as gratifying as their own Koussevitzky's. Manhattan heard him next and as pianist under the auspices of her pro-musica society. She rose to her feet when he came on the stage?a slight, aristocratic figure with graying hair. She listened to a program made up of works she had heard long since and approved, pronounced...
Idlers, lacking cash, heard little clamor from the crevices of Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Jack Sharkey, Bostonian, eminent contender for the world's heavyweight championship, was battling Tom Heeney, New Zealander. The fight was promised as an important preliminary for the next Gene Tunney championship bout. Outpouring spectators complained Friday, 13, was unlucky for them. The fight was dull; declared a draw...
...Roman Catholic reconsecration since the Roman Church did not recognize them as properly ordained priests. Lord Halifax, long President of the English Church Union, hoped to gain some tiny compromise, some small unbending from the Roman Church. His hopes were sustained by some, not many, Anglicans; they were heard with sympathy but without encouragement by certain noted Catholic prelates, notably the late Cardinal Mercier. It was the latter who arranged the annual conversations at Malines, Belgium, the seat of his archbishopric, to which every June came many Anglicans to discuss and forward progress toward church unity...
...notice, and in 1874 the Cornhill Magazine published anonymously Far from the Madding Crowd. Its enormous success was in part due to the fact that many painfully unobservant readers attributed it to famed George Eliot, whose works it resembled in certain details. In 1891, before literary England had properly heard of George Bernard Shaw, before Oscar Wilde was a bad name, before ten final absurd years had burned up in a bright sputter for the end of a smoldering century, Thomas Hardy had written Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the most famous of all his fine, austere, tempestuous novels...
...heard the call. President Frank Johnson Goodnow, 69, resigned, giving the trustees of Johns Hopkins until July 1, 1929 to find a successor. Said he: "A younger man should be president...