Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Louis IX, King of France, Saint Louis, who bought the crown of thorns, parts of the true cross, the holy lance; Louis, who built Sainte Chapelle; Louis, who fasted, loved sermons, heard two masses each day (dressing at midnight for matins) ; Louis, who surrounded himself with chanting priests on horseback when he traveled; Louis, who brought beggars into the back door of his palace; Louis, the ideal king of the late middle ages?his "name-day" was last week fervently sentimentally celebrated by all blind people of France. They of the Quinze Vingts, world's first refuge for the blind...
...male vegetable herein exhibited has dragged out its parasitic existence in every garden of genteel society that ever grew. To Author Parrish, great credit for supplying her specimen with logical antecedents, convincing contemporaries and a setting so carefully cultivated that its chokers and crinolines are not only seen and heard but almost smelled...
...cannot begin to tell you, my friends, what I saw and heard in those places, all of which were supposed to be 'respectable.' I can give you only the faintest idea in this address. In one dance hall, which had been formerly a great skating rink, we saw between 5,000 and 6,000 young men and women, on Saturday night, when they danced until Sunday morning. They were crowded in closely together, and were surging up and down the great dance hall floor, locked tightly in each other's embrace, in many cases with the cheek...
...good greens-gangsters awaited with eagerness his return to Oakmont. His divots would they gladly pat into place, and the divots of many another, that his defense of his title might be impeded by no fault in their husbandry. The fault in their husbandry. The talk that they heard ran sometimes on other young men, besides the perennial headliners, who might give him unexpectedly stern treatment: stocky Fred Lamprecht, perhaps, the intercollegiate champion; or Lauren Upson from the Pacific Coast, another rising collegian; Don Garrick, the Canadian junior, who also boxes, and his countryman, C. Ross Summerville, who bounced...
...have just returned from a week-end visit . . . where I heard a piano demonstrated whose tones grow or die as the performer chooses. I heard the volume in creased after the tone had been struck ... all this without in any degree altering the characteristics or the piano tone...