Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week immigration inspectors in Los Angeles heard that ten Chinese immigration-law evaders were being smuggled over the Mexican border in airplanes. Hastening to the Eagle airport, landing field near Los Angeles, they hid in the weeds and bushes, waiting. Toward dawn three airplanes arrived. Before the first to land had come to a full stop, officials ran forward with drawn guns. According to their version, the aviator attempted to take to the air, whereupon they fired, killed the aviator, captured the two other pilots, found no Chinese. In the running gear of the planes were tangled bunches...
...moment later, Mr. Lloyd George, comfortably replete, heard from the man who had stolen his coat piteous words: "Lor', Guv'nor, Hi didn't knaow 'twus yern. ... Hi cadged hit cuz Hi wus caold. . . . S'help...
...plaintiff that you may wish to apologize." Sari Fedak: "What? Certainly not! Why, if I read that I had apologized to Vilma Banky in tomorrow's papers I would die of apoplexy!" When counsel had presented their arguments, the Court declared: "No witness has been produced who actually heard the imputed words uttered by the defendant. . . . The case is dismissed. ... I will add my personal conviction that between two great actresses, each such an adornment to the national stage, there could have passed no phrase so wanting in dignity as: 'That low down little Budapest...
...Irishman from the Bronx and two Englishmen heard a pistol shot, bolted down a cinder path, glided over wooden barriers (2½ ft. high) without wasting an inch of height. Critics said they were the best amateur low-hurdlers in the world. The Irishman, Johnny Gibson of Fordham University, won. His time for the 400-metre hurdles was 55 2/5 sec. Two yards behind him was Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley of Cambridge University, who had been speedier two years ago. The other Cambridgian, T. C. Livingstone-Learmouth, who had led the way over half of the hurdles, finished...
...When I came here tonight," he said, "I was frankly worried. The Princetonian has a good team--I don't underestimate their strength a bit, so far this season their record has been distinctly better than ours. But when I heard you yelling here tonight I knew something was going to happen. With a noise like that behind them the boys can't lose." Then followed the statement of uncompromising confidence in the team which has already been quoted. Adolph, the CRIMSON mascot, jumped to his feet waving the red flag presented to him by E.A. Whitney...