Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next afternoon police raided a barber shop in Manhattan's Chinatown. They rushed up the stairs and heard feet pattering on the roof. They opened the hatch and saw no one. They went out on the roof to search and a fusillade of shots fell about them from a roof across the streets. Forty shots were fired but no one was hurt. In a safe below they found ten new automatics, 1,000 rounds of ammunition and six steel vests. Henry Moy, his brother Frank and other prominent On Leongs stood across the street watching the proceedings...
...sausage, short and plump and slightly curled, not to mention a bit blistered at the side from too much frying-that is how the Riff must look to the man in the moon when he swings over Morocco. And if he had listened carefully last week he might have heard the sizzling sound of frying...
Painting Ghost. Prom the north of France had came a middle-aged coal miner, Augustin Lesage. In 1912, working as he had worked for 20 years far down in a black bowel of the earth, Augustin heard "voices," like those Joan of Arc declared called her, telling him to stop mining and go to draw and paint. Thinking himself feverish, he went home to bed, whence a power drove him to a city to buy complete painter's equipment, none of the names for which had Augustin ever before known. Back in his cottage, he painted-or rather...
...sisters were four-Margaretta, Kate, Maria, Leah-of whom the first two were famed, beginning with Kate's interpretation (at the age of 9) of knockings heard in the Fox house at Hydesville, N. Y., in 1848. Margaretta concurred in her sister's decision that the ghost was a murdered peddler. They translated one knock for "no," two for "yea," pointed at the alphabet to enable the spirit to spell out words. At Maria's home in Rochester, Kate and Margaretta established contact with deceased relatives, spread their fame, went to Buffalo where their public seances, first...
...over 75, putting contests, best net and best gross cards for 18 and 36 holes. But the medal for the famed event?the championship for men over 50, went to Frederick Snare of Garden City who had turned in a score of 156. Piddling old fellows snorted when they heard of this, and spat their bile into the Club's brass spittoons; others shook their heads over their sour milk, declaring that it was a wonder that a man who went to Havana every winter like Mr. Snare could get around a course at all; but the more upstanding...