Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reed (a reader of Rabelais) many things: he saw the tortuous workings of Illinois political machines, he was given an object lesson in munificence by public utility potentates (TIME, Aug. 9), he added a few choice items to his ever-increasing stock of Anti-Saloon League lore, he heard of gunplay and ballotbox stuffing in Chicago's grimy wards, he was defied in court five times...
...large crowd. As he came out of the hall he passed a group of gold-star mothers. . . . They were weeping and as he went by the sobbing became audible. He clenched his teeth and, turning to them, raised his hand to silence them so he could be heard and said: ' 'We must not weep. Though I too have lost a dear one, I think only of victory. We must carry on, no matter what the cost.'" The Colonel would "carry on," as he had done all his life, yet "on the day when the whole of America...
Hillyer H. Straton (son of loud-speaking Roach Straton), who heard "the trumpet call of God's messengers," was ordained a Baptist minister...
...Heard Chancellor Churchill of the Exchequer announce that the Government will introduce at the first suitable opportunity legislation debarring some 126,000 government employes now affiliated with the Trades Union Congress from continuing any extragovernmental union affiliations whatever. Unions within the government services will continue to be tolerated...
...EXQUISITE PERDITA-E. Barrington-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Who will, may damn her, the unchaste nymph, Perdita Robinson. But there are extenuations. Her husband lavished their little on drink and mistresses. She was only 19 and three years wed unhappily. When brilliant Dick Sheridan heard her as "Juliet" and persuaded gruff David Garrick to train her, she was a desperate girl, desperate enough to keep Sheridan as a brother; virtuous enough, after London was at her feet, to show Sheridan her offers from the rakes and have him compose stinging refusals. Nor did she succumb to the Prince of Wales (George...