Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder having commanded attention for the subject with his writing in the Saturday Evening Post, Navy faultfinders less eminent but no less vehement are now able to make themselves heard. One such faultfinder is Dr. W. Armistead Gills, U. S. N. retired. Dr. Gills has written two books-The Price of a Sailor's Life and Three Years Under the Hammer-to set forth what he considers gross ineptitude in the Navy health service. Not until last week, however, did his objections attain the resonance of front page headlines...
When the eighth Assembly of the League of Nations ended its deliberations (TIME, Oct. 10) Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, hastened to the sea coast and there boarded his yacht, the Dolphin, and was no more heard of until, off Majorca, the principal Balearic island off Spain, he entertained General Primo de Rivera, Dictator of Spain...
...very great singer of popular songs. In cities where the Vitaphone can be installed and reproduce his voice this picture will eminently repay attendance. It is doubtful if the straight picture version in smaller theatres will carry much interest down the byways where they crave Bebe Daniels but never heard the name of Jolson...
Some readers were puzzled, remembering an old series by this same Mr. Cobb which was syndicated in newspapers in 1921 under the title "My Favorite Stories." This series was too easy; and not funny enough. Readers who hear funny stories, read funny papers, go to vaudeville shows, had heard most of the stories. Some few readers were particularly dismayed. "Are we," they asked, "to have more of the odd taste displayed by Mr. Cobb at a dinner to Calvin Coolidge last spring in Manhattan given by the United Press Association? With the President and Mrs. Coolidge present, Mr. Cobb concluded...
...Yale, the 227th Freshman Class heard from the lips of President James Rowland Angell that physical health is the first requirement for success. Blond, curly-headed Warren Pershing, son of General John J. Pershing, was one of those thus instructed. ¶ At Smith College, the Freshman class numbered 15 granddaughters of Smith alumnae...