Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gospeling from the platforms could have been heard Margaret Bondfield, leader of British working girls. Lady Astor is one of the supporters of the movement, but her Parliamentary duties prevented her from joining the marchers. On arriving in broiling Hyde Park, the processions were met by actors, dancers, children, who gave a symbolic pageant representing the coming of peace. The speeches delivered, the dancing over, a resolution was adopted urging the government to settle all disputes by arbitration. The lady pilgrims expect that law will, or, at least, "should take the place...
Once again the great name of Raymond Poincaré was heard. His incorruptibility is a byword. His energy and ability have enabled him to become a much sought lawyer, a self-made man of wealth, a statesman of primatical fame. He has been twice Premier (1911-13; 1922-24) and throughout the War and peace negotiations was President of France (1913-20). It was felt last week that if M. Poincaré would consent to assume the portfolio of finance, solidarity would be given at least to the fiscal policy of France. M. Poincaré (Right: ultra-anti-German) signified...
Some 10,000,000 Britishers heard her sing over the radio, heard the little speech. Some 3,000 paid trebled prices to get into the theatre. Important correspondents, critics, wrote columns on her "brilliant farewell" on the same stage where she had made "triumphant début" 38 years before. Melba, happy, read their stories, sniffed a little at the "triumphant début," recalled her own version...
Presidents Max Mason of Chicago and Clarence C. Little of Michigan were also rounding out their first years in their chairs, but the public heard less of their discoveries, heard only that their respective institutions had found them to be able...
...eleventh night the Captain heard the thud of paws, flashed his electric torch on a black and yellow Presence with jewel eyes that leaped out of the forest upon the goat's back. His rifle roared; he knew that his aim had been true, but when he sprang forward to look he found the goat lying dead in a pool of blood with the marks of incredible claws in his back. There was nothing else, no dead marauder. The captain turned upon his gunbearer a face in which horror whitely flickered. Could it be?...