Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immediately wrote to the editor stating that I had lived in the West for 38 years and had heard the expression hundreds of times, and that the proper plural is "Tenderfeet." To be sure I submitted the matter to a dinner club of 25 gentlemen? lawyers, doctors, professors, bankers and businessmen?who had all lived in the West ten to twenty years or more. They were all familiar with the use of the word "tenderfoot" to designate some one newly arrived and green to the ways of the West, and they were all agreed that "tenderfeet" was the only plural...
...offer to accept $40,000,000 a year for five years as a full discharge on the interest of the French debt for those years. The Painlevé Cabinet, in which M. Caillaux was Finance Minister, fell (TIME, Nov. 9, Dec. 7) and the stopgap offer has not been heard of since...
Last week the trustees called another Methodist and he heard them and said he would go unto them. He was Dr. Daniel Lash Marsh of Pittsburgh, aged 45, alumnus of Northwestern University, Garrett Biblical Institute, Chicago University and Boston University. Ordained in 1903, Dr. Marsh served seven years in small Pennsylvania towns until called to Sewickley, socially prominent suburb of Pittsburgh. There he paid the church debt, multiplied the congregation...
...French interest in Syria is not merely a crass, commercialistic one but rather the result of a long existing and sentimental tradition. Now that the French are in Syria they can find hundreds of reasons for not leaving. The saying is often heard nowadays, 'we can not scuttle' not only by the French but by the Americans and British as well. The French attachment to Syria is largely a cultural one which extends back beyond Napoleon's empire. French is the cultural language of Syria, the greatest universities and schools are French, and there is the additional religious interest which...
...that performs with Mr. Dunham demonstrates conclusively that barn dances, at least, must never supplant the fox-trot and the new waltz. There have been periods of graceful polished dancing when rhythm and ease and picturesqueness gave color and beauty to the ballroom. But evidently Mr. Ford has never heard of them...