Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard a debate between Senators Edge and Bruce (wet) and Senators Willis and McKellar (dry) concerning national prohibition, whether its effect was good...
Colonel Mitchell heard the verdict read with calmness. His wife stayed close by him. When it was done, numbers of persons rushed up to shake his hand. After a moment he turned to the Court and exclaimed, "Why these men are my friends." He went up and shook the hand of General Howze. The General said, "Goodbye, Billy!" Then the other members of the Court put out their hands to be shaken...
...Paris to guard the frail French-Vatican relations) were summoned to the Pope's apartments. In the antechamber a sottoguardaroba handed each his scarlet zucchetto. Capped they proceeded into the presence of His Holiness who placed on each his scarlet biretta-the four-cornered, pinched-top cap-then heard their oaths to defend conscientiously the papal bulls concerning nonalienation of the possessions of the Roman Church, nepotism, papal elections, and cardinalitial dignity. Last May 30, two Spanish prelates were elevated to the scarlet: Eustachio Ilundain y Esteban, Archbishop of Seville, and Vincenzo Casanova y Marzol, Archbishop of Granada...
Rosa Ponselle sang in the season's premiere, La Juive, at the Metropolitan last week. She had not been heard in the role since Christmas Eve, 1920, when she assisted in the last public appearance of Enrico Caruso...
Henry Ford sat beside his wife in the fine front-parlor of his home in Dearborn, Mich., and heard Mellie Dunham, champion fiddler of Maine, play "Money Musk." Fiddler Dunham had been imported in a special Pullman all the way to Michigan to contribute to Mr. Ford's appetite for country tunes and "racy" U. S. music. Fiddler Dunham is an old man; his fingers are gnarled from making snowshoes; his white mustache is so long that he tucks it under his fiddle before he plays. He struck up "Turkey in the Straw." Mr. Ford snapped his fingers, knocked...