Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently U. S. Senator Robert N. Stanfield of Oregon walked the beach at Ocean City, Md., suddenly, startled, heard a scream. Mrs. J. E. Swanson of Florida was struggling feebly against buffeting combers. No poltroon, Mr. Stanfield swam lustily to her, fought undertow for 15 minutes before he could make the shore. Said the Senator: "This experience was the most harrowing of my life...
Their appeal heard, registered, the Sheriffs observed their immemorial custom of presenting each doorkeeper of the House with a bottle of port wine...
...Heard, received from Premier Baldwin, assurances that the Government will take up the matter of "reforming prerogatives of the House of Lords"-restoring certain powers now in abeyance-" before the lifetime of the present Parliament expires...
...expression-the "Little Poker Face" of a thousand newspaper stories-sustained no change. Yet surely she heard. And surely she was pleased. For the Panama's cry was the one important recognition accorded her on her return to the U. S. last week...
Filipinos. Oracle Thompson was an interesting exhibit before the joint opening session of Filipino Senate and House. He was applauded half-heartedly (Governor General Leonard Wood was not applauded at all); he spoke of "public lands . . . rubber . . . righteousness . . . loyalty;" he heard a unanimous resolution, agreed upon by both Houses, informing President Coolidge of the intense desire of the Filipinos for immediate, complete, absolute independence. Colonel Thompson had another entry for his notebook, along with the item that the night before he had drunk champagne to Mr. Coolidge's health at the proposal of Manuel Quezon, president of the Senate...