Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blut und Schlamm." His joy at his first taste of warfare was quickly conveyed to his family by letter: "I gratified my longings on the battlefield−smelt powder, heard whistling around me projectiles of all kinds−shells, shrapnel, canister, rifle-bullets; I was slightly wounded, thus becoming an interesting person; and I captured five cannon...
Speeches. Before they left town, they laid eyes upon dapper Julian Starkweather Mason, editor of the New York Herald Tribune, heard him earnestly declare that their papers were "far better than college papers of a generation ago, and better than most of the newspapers throughout the country." They learned that it was "a heartening thing for us newspapermen to have such high school publications and students as you, who will come miles to hear practical newspaper people talk." They learned that there are exciting moments in newspaper offices and that, for Editor Mason, "these moments are full of loyalty, service...
Newspaper circulation managers sit up late thinking out schemes to pique public curiosity. Lately, the New York Evening World calmly and cleverly ripped a page out of society's playbook, announced a $1,000 "treasure hunt." The Evening World's democratic clientele had heard about Edward of Wales' crawling on hands and knees through alleys in London's Limehouse district, accompanied by gorgeously dight female companions, nosing out clues to pots of gold. They had heard of young swells and sylphs of upper Park Ave. riding hilariously about Manhattan in limousines, sending their chauffeurs into Pierre's or Tiffany...
...farmer's daughter heard the noise, saw a bluish cloud of smoke ascend. An investigating party beheld a hole in the earth 50 feet wide descending conically into blackness. As hours passed, this fissure sucked in the adjacent ground for 300 feet around, gaping out into the dry, sandy riverbed. Out of the bottom darkness, pale greenish waters later welled up and there was the white cow's body floating upon them, 100 feet below ground level. Sulphur fumes arose...
...abrupt termination of the conference of the League disappoints those who hoped that the Locarno pact had meant the final establishment of Europe on a peace-time basis. From certain quarters ominous croakings are heard to the effect that the Genevan flasco has revealed the hollowness of the new spirit and sounded the death knell of the League. Yet in the harmony prevailing among the Locarno signatories, there is cause for the belief that the progress of international understanding has incurred only a temporary check. The longing of the war-torn European nations for a new world order is still...