Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate, after insisting on its right to inspect Mr. Warren with a political microscope, received the nomination of Mr. Sargent shortly after 1 p.m. and referred it to the Judiciary Com mittee (which met at 2:30 and, in half an hour, heard three Senators speak in Mr. Sargent's favor and reported unanimously in favor of the appointment), received the Committee's report later in the afternoon, considered it just a moment behind closed doors ; then opened the doors, had the motion to confirm put and answered in unison with a rumbling "Aye." There is reason to believe that...
...permanent lowering of the pugnacious spirit, is not yet apparent. The student body, too, has felt this reaction and the pacifistic sentiment is well represented in the University, as last year's discussion proved. Thus an intelligent decision on the question of preparedness or pacifism demands both sides be heard; and toward this end General Fries will be most welcome...
...platform caused heated dispute last year, to be settled finally by compromise; but the nominal admission of the value of open discussion means little. Men may admit that they only source of truth is the free clash of opposing views; yet it is only when conflicting theories are fairly heard and frequently discussed that education has begun...
Last week, Siegfried was performed at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Wagner lovers, packed like olives, heard the great score greatly interpreted by Conductor Bodanzky, heard Frederick Schoor resonantly represent Wotan, Mme. Larsen-Todsen awake with sweet screams in her circle of fire, George Meader shiver with the impotent cunning of Mime, the dwarf. They witnessed, in addition, an accidental and well-nigh tragic incident which concerned Curt Taucher, tenor, who sang Siegfried, favorite of the Gods...
...Nice, Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen has been playing tennis, always victoriously. Loungers in the sunshine of the Riviera smiled with tolerant skepticism at these glorious triumphs of the leaping Frenchwoman, for they observed that the women she defeated had seldom been heard of before and were rarely heard of again. They, therefore, looked forward with some eagerness to the finals of the annual Nice tourney in which, they saw, Mlle. Lenglen would doubtless be opposed by Miss Elizabeth Ryan, famed California player. What was their chagrin when Miss Ryan defaulted in the second round! Nice buzzed. It was another trick...