Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delivered by William Cabell Bruce of Maryland, than whom there is perhaps no more learned Senator. He reminded the Senate that the frequency with which he saw the name of Judge Elbert H. Gary attached to prohibition memorials was only exceeded by the frequency with which he heard envy-rousing reports of the grandly stocked cellar of the grand red house on Fifth Ave. which the Judge occupies. Let the Judge deny the reports or quit signing memorials, was Senator Bruce's suggestion. The fame of Senator Bruce is likely to increase as the prohibition issue becomes more acute...
...Congress the rivers and harbors appropriation bill. Tacked to this 40-million-dollar bill as a somewhat disproportionate rider was a provision, involving an ultimate expenditure of 600 millions, authorizing the New York project. House Leader Tilson gave Mr. Dempsey to understand that the bill would not be heard in that form. Mr. Dempsey retorted that it would be heard thus or not at all. Both visited the President, who was preserving strict neutrality in the controversy. Mr. Dempsey threatened to withhold his entire appropriations bill, but finally consented to ask only the cost ($500,000) of a Federal survey...
...never heard a more self-complacent speech in my life...
...Angeles, a grocer on the city's outskirts whiled away time before his supper listening to his radio, heard a voice at Station KPO (San Francisco) saying: "Allen Straight is asked to communicate immediately with his father at Loveland, Colo. Straight is thought to be en route between Del Mar and San Diego." It was part of KPO's daily call for "missing people...
...life, however, was not completely cloistered. I often are banana sodas at the drug store and heard the conversation of the concupiscent, the dialogues of the damned. And there I heard of Cartrack, even saw Cartrack, pour soul and I will never be at peace until her story is told, for to me Cartrack is anepic figure, a Helen far from Troy, a Dido unheralded and unsung...