Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's heart beat sympathetically as he heard the story of young Joseph Hall last month. Joseph had promised to take his girl to the Navy-Michigan football game, but he had no tickets; incidentally, he mentioned that he was the son of an Edgartown (Mass.) politician who was prominent when President Coolidge was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. The President produced his own tickets, despatched young Joseph to Baltimore with his girl and a Secret Serviceman. He enjoyed the game, and was photographed heroically with Governor Ritchie of Maryland. Wary Boston police saw the picture, trailed young Joseph...
Tableau. A roar of cheering and shouted snatches of Fascist songs greeted Premier Mussolini as he entered. Ramrod-backed he deigned to nod, to smile. Then his right hand upraised commanded silence. ... A wrist watch might have been heard to tick. . . . Grasping the laurel with one hand and the roses with the other, Il Duce sat down at his desk, stared straight before him, his gaze piercing and immovable. . . . When Il Duce's dramatic silence had begun to seem permanent, the President of the Chamber, Signor Casertano, at length plucked up courage to open the session, not with...
Arnoldo Lindi (see above) was once a breaker boy in a Swedish iron mine; he ran away, shipped before the mast, landed in Boston. There he moved furniture, went in for pugilism, sang in his spare lime with a Swedish choral society. True to tradition a rich man heard him, sent him abroad for a musical education, where he has since had successful engagements. Last week he had his Chicago debut...
Last week the scientific world heard of a noise that was literally "killing." Inaudible to human ears, it consisted of extremely short, rapid sound waves produced from electrically driven quartz crystals. Similar waves had been used in submarine detection, during the War, when it was noticed that fish in the experimental tanks were occasionally killed. Subsequent experiment had shown that stagnant water could be freed from microorganisms; that small fish died in convulsions after "hearing" the quartz waves; that the blood count of a swimming mouse was reduced one half after 20 minutes' exposure. Possible significance: swift purification...
Perry S. Williams, Minneapolis newspaperman, heard the story, dreamed and mulled over it as he typed his' daily stint, embroidered it, made a libretto of it. It was more than a dozen years ago that he finished it and sent it to Tenor Riccardo Martin of the Chicago Opera, more than a dozen years ago that Tenor Martin passed it on to Composer Alberto Bimboni, little man, to write the score...