Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President heard that his uncle John Wilder, 80, famed fiddler for diddling jigs and square dances, had signed up with four other natives of Plymouth, Vt., to tour U. S. vaudeville and cinema houses. William Morris, Manhattan theatrical manager, is booking them as an old-time barnstorming orchestra. They will open in Boston on Nov. 1, and return to Vermont in the spring in time to plant their crops...
...Book that Nobody Knows, went forth and told The People all the homely facts that the President had revealed about himself, it seemed that nothing but good could come of it to every one. The President was apparently one of the most contented mortals ever heard of. His every quality was as re-assuring as a mother's goodnight kiss, from the childhood readings in Scott, Burns and Whittier to the humble acceptance of membership in the First Congregational Church of Washington right after inauguration. It is, however, a good wind which blows no one any ill. When...
...yacht. There luncheon was served. There the statesmen conferred again. Some thousands of cheering Italians who lined the shore and spied upon the Dolphin and the Giuliana wondered, as did many a newsgatherer, just what the Premier and the Foreign Secretary said to each other. Straining their ears they heard distinctly "God Save the King" rendered by the Giuliana'a band...
...country of popular government--popular with those in office, unpopular with the rest, the voice of the people must be heard at some favorable time. It usually resounds in November in stadium, forum, or in the still static affected vehicle of current propagandizing, the radio. What does it say? The answer is rather obvious, dividing into such natural divisions as did ancient Gaul: I like football; I like the Democratic Party; I like the Republican Party: And that is that...
...storm in the sky mounts, but is not yet heard...