Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even farther. Field day exercises were held on the old state fair grounds, now Camp Randall, the throw down the level racetrack, on a day devoid of wind, in the presance of a large assemblage. If this record ever has been equaled by amateur or collegian, I never have heard of it. However, unlike young Osler, I never slaughtered a pig with a stone behind the ear, though in boyhood at Baraboo I let fly a potato at a bibulous shoe merchant just as he was turning into a saloon far down the alley, hands crossed behind back...
...Because five days is enough time for our men to train in; and if it is not enough, we cannot afford longer," replied the Britishers. "Why have you no coach?" asked pressmen. "For the same reason: we cannot afford one," said they. At Cambridge, Mass., blond David, Lord Burghley, heard a pistol pop, took a step, two, three, sailed over a white hurdle, repeated this bounding, this stepping for 120 yards, winning the first event for England...
...while these reports were current that a friend of mine from out of town walked with me past the White House. He told me what he had heard regarding the insanity of the President, but said that he had refused to believe a word of it until there had been pointed out to him a bedroom in the northeast corner of the house across the window of which iron bars had been placed. He solemnly directed my attention to these bars, undeniable evidence to his mind of the truth of the insanity story...
...adventures of John Fraser : how his father was a Tory, his lady a revolutionist ; how he, torn between two personal voices and not particularly concerned with the wider issues of his country's dilemma, went to England, France, Scotland, looking for a fence to sit on ; how he heard men declaim in taverns and ordinaries, breaking their clay pipes with the passion of their rhetoric ; and how, by a somewhat fatuous coincidence, he came at last to march with Greene's army through North Carolina. Mr. Boyd writes the language laboriously and without zest. He is not concerned...
...Tennessee has no more right to teach the Bible as the Divine Book than it has the Koran, the Book of Mormon, the Book of Confucius, the Buddha or the Essays of Emerson. . . . Who is the Chief Mogul that can tell us what the Bible means ? . . . Nothing was ever heard of all that [Christian divisions] until the Fundamentalists got into Tennessee. . . . Here is one thing I cannot account for, that is the hatred and the venom and feeling of people with very strong religious convictions. . . . Joshua made the sun stand still. The Fundamentalists will make the ages roll back. . . . This...