Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newspaper correspondents, lolling on the porch at Paul Smith's Hotel, were wishing something would happen. Something did. Leonard Smith of the New York Evening Post and Alfred H. Kerchhofer of the Buffalo Evening News canoed, capsized, found the lake waters icy, heard the rescuing put-put of several motor boats. Ever-attendful Major J. F. Coupal, the President's physician, ordered the conoeist-correspondents...
Some one had left a switch open. The train leaped up a siding and buried its snorting nose in a freight train. The flier's engineer was killed, his mates injured painfully. Back in the sleeper, the motherly woman awoke, thought she had heard a thunder clap, dropped off again. She was fatigued after her previous day's campaigning for renomination by the Democrats. When she heard what had happened, she proceeded to her home townlet of Temple right nearby, telephoned the executive mansion at Austin to say she was all right, and, when the sun shone once...
...Heard Laborite Leader Ram say Macdonald rebuke Laborite Backbencher Lawson when he attempted to heckle the Speaker. Craning his neck like an angry bull turtle, former Premier Macdonald snapped: "Stop it, Lawson! Say you're sorry. Apologize to the Speaker." Mr. Lawson reddened, purpled, offered the (for him) supreme apology of remaining silent for some hours...
...Vatican heard without comment that drops of red liquid flowed from the eyes of an obscure "Virgin and Child," a fresco on a building now being demolished, in Milan. Townswomen insist this was blood and was a sign of the Virgin's displeasure "at the men folk, who swear too much...
Bermuda Railway The Bermudas, isles of onions, Easter lilies, lyric grottoes and healing sunshine, has never heard the honking rattle of an automobile or the clank of a chuffing train. But Great Bermuda, the largest of the islands is 14 miles long, 1 mile wide. Hack horses and bicycles simply cannot keep up the pace, either of today's onion industry or of modern fashions in holiday-making. Last week, after a 50-year struggle with transportation, the islanders announced that they would have, not automobiles to bury the scenery in pulverized coral from the roads, but a discreet...