Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once heard him asked whether it would be possible in the United States to pass into law a Budget with the changes in taxation corresponding to Lloyd George's Budget in 1909. The answer was not a learned exposition of the limitations of the American Constitution; it was simply this: 'It would depend upon whether a Judge of the Supreme Court came down heads or tails...
...years ago he quitted his sumptuous palace and well-stocked harem at Teheran, came to Paris, and, like many another, was reported "deeply shocked" at what he saw and heard there. Six months later he had succeeded in shocking in return all but the most blase inhabitants of Paris...
...judgment over his people, stroking the black wires of his beard with fingers that have forgotten the harp; David, old and a prophet, remembering past enchantments and past ills-this cycle in the sounds of a limited wind-choir, a piano, harmonium, celesta, double-bass and percussion, was heard last week in Manhattan -Arthur Honegger's "Symphonic Psalm," performed by the Society of the Friends of Music...
...encountered him... He used to drop in and talk of his brilliant future and vow he would achieve it .... He had just written Cashel Byron's Profession, the only book of his I have ever read, and that because he gave it to me, though once later I heard him read Candida at H. W. Massingham's, and that was enough for me .... Soon The Star was started. Shaw was made Art Critic. I suppose it was writing on art that gave him the idea that he was an authority on the subject, but to this...
...Last year, after the crew race, members of the 'Varsity were heard to complain of this treatment. Harvard will have to work very hard for success next year, and we hope that every man will consider it his duty, whenever it is possible to encourage by his presence the practises...