Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reaped for every dollar sown in providing better living and traveling quarters for our President and for his Ambassadors in foreign lands. As matters stand, foreigners visit Washington and then go home to tell their countrymen that our President lives like what Sinclair Lewis calls a "babbitt." I have heard "babbitt" picked up and used in this connection by foreigners several times. Do we want that to continue? HERBERT MILTON MAXWELL...
...entered the portal of old Appleton he so loved, he heard the swish of a gown and a low growl. Appleby gave the familiar spaniel a playful kick in the ribs and turned around to face the front of Jove himself...
Appleby Hollisheimer heard the striking of the clock. With one of the flashes of genius that come to great sinners and great saints he realized simultaneously what terrible consequences it might have, and that if he could stop the hands of the clock he could stop the bell. Here was his chance to do something for Harvard...
...prancing group of quadrupeds dragging the Rochester (England) coach about the Yard, guided by an anachronism and the university's omnipresent sous-officer. At that time, as paint-smeared thespians climbed the steps of University Hall, and hoop skirts rolled into the Deanery, a volume of Pickwick Papers was heard groaning from its lair in Child Memorial...
...perils may seem, as the plucky reader wends his way through the distinctly mediocre to the unquestionably superb he emerges with the feeling that after all the Benchley tradition has been preserved. The chuckles come as they were no doubt intended to, and here and there may be heard a loud guffaw. Continuing a worthy partnership, Gluyas Williams has embellished a considerable number of the pages with his delightful drawings, and as an added attraction there are no small number of opera from the hand of the variously-appreciated John Held...