Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Republican National Committeemen arrived in Washington for their first real caucus of the 1928 campaign. Some of them were said to have heard President Coolidge say: "I wonder who could beat 'Al' Smith if I didn...
...Wetness. Captain Stayton, an ex-Navy man now in the shipping business at Baltimore, is less vocal than was Mr. Wheeler. But Captain Stayton has been working away "patiently" for eight years as the brain and muscle of the A. A. P. A. Now & again he is heard from, as he was last week...
...Donham and Mrs. F. E. Heard are acting as hostesses. E. W. Marshall 1G.B. will be head-usher...
...Straton, in making this statement was wrong, as all who heard him at the Union will agree. He did say what the newspapers quoted him as saying, or at least said words that implied that thought. Whether the laughter in the audience caused by this statement was a sign of approbation and approval, or of admiration for the man who would dare to say, such a thing in such a place, is hard to determine, but that he said it and that it raised considerable furore at the time is certain...
...Doctor's Dilemma. The commendable industry of retrieving Bernard Shaw's plays proceeds pungently at the Theatre Guild. Not for a dozen years has Manhattan heard Shavian firecrackers go off around the ankles of the medical profession. The sputter of novelty has been muted by time and by an increasing propensity on the part of the profession itself to admit how many, many things it cannot cure. But for those who still regard medicine as magic, it will be a painless purge. For those who still more reasonably revere as magic an agile comedy immaculately acted, it will...