Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heard many tales from my Indians of a race called the Pogsa, which means animal people," stated Dr. McGovern to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "We managed to catch some of them, a most peculiar job. they speak a language which is a combination of clicks, clucks, and gutteral explosious. Their language caused us the most trouble. We would often use nine or ten interpreters to translate the language for us, one passing the story on to the next man, till it finally reached me, after being transferred from dialect to dialect...
...heard much about Indian treachery", he continued "but I consider the Indians, as fine a set of people as I've ever found. The minds of primitive people are very much the same the world over. You must consider their viewpoint. Then, too, their etiquette is very complicated. They regard the white man as a blundering, bad-mannered barbarian...
...Smith, a storekeeper, heard the doorbell ring that night. He was taken away in a car and beaten with straps...
Willie Wilson stayed up late one night. He and his wife took turns walking up and down the floor with a sick baby. They heard automobiles stop in front of the house. Mr. Wilson got down his gun. Eight masked men came into the bedroom where the baby was wailing and Mr. Wilson was standing in the dark. They threw flashlight beams into his face and fired twice, killing...
...only," he cried. "I had an English dog called Bobby during the early days of the War. He was almost human. He died in the swamps of La Pompelle in 1917, of influenza. He always remembered and acted strangely several hours in advance of an attack when he had heard me give the order, perhaps days before. Is that memory or intelligence? Is that soul or instinct? Mes amis, you may rest assured that dogs at least remember...