Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago last week the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ended its annual deliberations. Many a notable such as Julius Rosenwald and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, friendly to Negroes, had been heard. Resolutions were passed and a million dollar program for promoting more perfect race equality was adopted. The climax came when the Spingarn medal, the symbol of Negro distinction, was presented to Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson for "ten years' service in collecting and publishing records of the Negro in America...
...flying speck vanished away from the aerodrome at Le Bourget, outside Paris. They saw it pass near Strasbourg. Austrians and Hungarians glanced aloft shortly after. Dour Serbs eyed its flight over their dark mountains. Quarrelsome Bulgars and the night-watchmen of Constantinople heard its thin droning and all night it sped on over Anatolia, Kurdistan, down the Euphrates Valley to meet the dawn. At Basra in Irak, where the Euphrates, led by the Tigris, floods down to the Persian Gulf and men are said to have flown on magic carpets, the speck finally came to earth. Captain Ludovic Arrachart...
...Manhattan Coue held clinics, murmured, "Ca passe, ca passe!" and gathered up the dollars and discarded crutches, heard stutterers talk fluently, noted Coueism turn fad, society women form Coue clubs. Later they sponsored Mah Jong, talked of East Wind, not "Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better...
...attain the end of teaching in our public schools, the truths about the great industrial world. . . . Today any fool with a silly idea can almost always sell it to some board of education and clutter up the schools with a lot of unessentials." Only about two score unionized teachers heard Mr. Coughlin. The teachers' union is not large yet. But their program is vigorous. They are against: construction of schools with more than 200 pupils capacity and classes of more than 30; military training in school and college. They are for: collective bargaining in fixing teachers' salaries; equality...
...said the pale, sarcastic genius of twenty, the already famous Liszt. Von Lenz played Aufforderung zum Tanz* and then other music by Weber. The glitter of a dagger in the sun was in the eyes of Liszt, and he put down his long Turkish pipe, amazed. He had never heard of Weber's piano music, and he solemnly pledged eternal gratitude to Von Lenz from Riga for having introduced to him such beauty. He had known only Weber's universally popular opera Frieschütz.š And young Weber had been dead nearly two years...