Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President heard that his secretary, Everett Sanders, was on duty at the White House, "feeling fine" after an extended cruise in the West Indies...
...said the Abbe Loubiere, "her name is Madame Pearl Flanagan, and she lives in a city of which I had never heard until she told me of it, Wichita, Kansas...
...American soldier now buried in French soil!" General John Joseph Pershing, Chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission, quietly informed newsgatherers who sought him at his sister's house in Lincoln, Neb., last week that during his recent stay of two months in Europe he neither saw nor heard of any insults written on the white crosses over the graves of U. S. soldiers...
Quick. Suddenly the screech of brakes was heard far up the hill. One Hedley V. Quick, an employe of the Anglo-American Bank of Mexico City, was slithering down the grade, en route to Cuernavaca. So steep is the hill that Mr. Quick could not stop when commanded to halt by the bandits. Two shots ripped through his side curtains. Then, resourceful, Mr. Quick took his foot from the brake, plunged it down upon the gas. His car, bounding, lurching, sped down the hill. Half a mile farther on he met First-Secretary Arthur Bliss Lane...
...with many a war-whoop. Leaping pajama-clad from his berth, General Obregon personally directed and encouraged his soldiers as they sniped at the Yaqui from behind the drawn blinds of the sleeping cars. For 17 hours the siege continued. At last a portentous puffing was heard. A troop train sent by President Calles to rescue his friend, Ex-President Obregon, steamed up, commanded by Generals Bernal and Montano. Soon the Yaqui fled. General Obregon, his equanimity unruffled, slept that night at his extensive rancho...