Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yellowstone. They found it stocked with shifty-eyed witnesses intent on the scalp of National Park Superintendent, Colonel H. M. Albright. A long day was spent in listening to stories told to his discredit. He was responsible, he heard, for an exhorbitant motorcar entrance fee of $7.50. Buffalo had died during the filming of The Thundering Herd. Favoritism had been shown to the neighboring Silver Tip Ranch owned by Thomas Cochran (Morgan Partner). Equipment had been loaned to utility companies. There was too much banqueting of Eastern dudes at government expense...
Anger breeds anger. Colonel William Mitchell, former Assistant Chief of the Army Air Service was angry and spoke his mind. The War Department heard his words and grew angry. Reports had it that he would be court-martialed or at least severely reprimanded...
...Damn it, Sir! We fought to set the slaves free! And we did it with none of your 14 piddling points and treaties made in a frog king's palace! Damn it, Sir! Who ever heard of the Marne...
During the dinner, Will Thorne turned to "Lady Astor's sister" (Mrs. C.D. Gibson?) "remarking that the beauty of her reminded me of a song I had often heard sung in East End. She was curious to know what it was and finally persuaded me to hum the song that I had in mind." The song...
...waiters at the Oakmont Club, on the other hand, knew little, or cared less about Jones, nor had they if the truth were known any high regard for the game of golf. They had heard too many members play around "one of the most difficult courses in the country," stroke by stroke, over their meals, to be enthusiastic. What though Von Elm, Jess Sweetser, Guilford, Mackensie and the rest had come to compete in the National Amateur? The waiters asked questions about the Shenandoah (See Page 31); they interested themselves in the acrobatics of dice and the scores of distant...