Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invitations to Harvard men to occupy the boxes on both sides of the stage. This hospitality on the part of the manager was, according to the Boston Herald, "well meant but positively disastrous." Harvard students were in no mood to give the play a favorable reception. They had heard altogether too much about the seriousness with which its exaggerated representations of many of the worst and most ridiculous sides of college life had been taken as an accurate portrayal of Harvard students and the life they led. They felt too much pride in the traditions and honor of the University...
...raising of the curtain was the signal for more noise from the young bloods who represented Harvard University. A chorus of yells greeted the performers, and for some minutes nothing could be heard above...
...youth in Charmington, Misereri, it was the pleasure of the local legitimates to preach sermons. In fact there was not a preacher in Charmington who did not preach, nor a minister who did not minister. But they were all Methodists and I was a Baptist. So I heard few of their sermons, received few of their ministrations. Yet this did not send me to hell. I remained in Charmington in our little gray house in the best part of town and real evil books which my mother had bought for me, books like Old Testament Stories, the Life and Times...
...have never heard a chorus which was under the same perfect artistic discipline, into which the men who have trained these organizations have instilled into these choruses. "This, of course, is a great factor in the artistic performance of such a large body of singers...
...young and smiling faces a-top banjos which some said had been heard in Spokane stopped beaming at the bevy of upturned faces--the Pathe news of the Leviathan--and then Bebe the inimitable, the exquisite--the comedienne is off in a cloud of dust, traffic cops, contortionists--and who hasn't wanted to break a big vase--or be a million dollars out and five millions...