Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge. When Arthur Brisbane came away from the White House luncheon table last week (see above), many an ear was enormously curious to hear what he had heard. Newsgatherers could not wait to read about it next day in the Brisbanal syndicate column. Had the President chosen this supereminent publicist, from whose pursed lips come editorial pearls, to confide an exegesis of the historic "do not choose" statement...
Carefree young U. S. citizens whose understanding of prohibition ends with the hard grins on the face of men that bring heavy bundles to their parents, last week turned a name over in their minds trying to think where they had heard it before. "F. Scott McBride?" they said. "Where before have I heard of F. Scott McBride...
...them realized that they had never before heard of F. Scott McBride. The name they were half-remembering was F. Scott Fitzgerald. They had read novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald, works in which cocktails make the characters say unexpected things and in which highballs, gin fizzes, champagne inspire exciting conduct...
Much talk of a "tariff war" ensuing was heard. Washington prepared its reply, which was held certain to reject in toto the French proposals since the U. S. tariff law does not permit most-favored nation treatment...
...Manhattan. In the Guild Theatre, Manhattan, a newly organized society, The Musical Forum, plans to present on certain Sunday even- ings programs of concert music that, in the ordinary course of the season, would not be heard. It does not propose to emphasize ultra-modern compositions. Kurt Schindler is director...