Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Isaac Newton, or Keppler. University Hall will be flooded by letters demanding the truth about the "apple hypothesis of the discovery of gravity" or research on the theory that each star has its little guardian angel pushing it through space. Others will ask for proof that Pythagoras first heard the music of the spheres...
Senator Ashurst (Democrat): "It was the most acrobatic, gymnastic speech I have ever heard in the Senate...
Pierrot the Prodigal. Not for over a year has the voice of Laurette Taylor been heard on the stage, nor was it heard when, after this long silence, she returned last week to play the title role of this pantomime by Michel Carre, to the music of Andre Wormser. Through three acts which deal with the fragile adventures of poor Pierrot who runs away with one Phrynette, returns home in tears, no player speaks a word. Miss Taylor's face is a painted mask of eternal, baffled laughter, of moon-blanched sorrow; her gestures are eloquent, her insight unfailing. George...
...evening cheers had rung out, now for one college, now for another; but a certain drawled, unoriginal huzzah in particular had been repeated with irritating frequency: "Ha-a-a-va-a-d." That word had been heard over and over. "Ha-a-a-va-a-d, Ha-a-a-va-a-d, Ha-a-a-va-a-d." Indeed, the university whose manner of encouraging her sons had so piqued the representatives of the other colleges had mighty men in her service. There was Albert ("Truck") Miller, 200-pound sprinter ; Jeff Fletcher, high-hurdle star; "Soapy" Watters, Olympic middle-distance...
...rushed to Cleveland, spoke before a large crowd in the Chamber of Commerce Auditorium, declared that he had smashed his models because he had heard that the Memorial Association, headed by Hollins N. Randolph, Atlanta lawyer, had asked his superintendent to complete his sculptures. Said he: "The man they wanted to finish my work is a carpenter, not a sculptor. He would be unable to do a decent line of work." Meanwhile, talk went on in Atlanta that he would be extradited from North Carolina. To effect this, the Memorial Association swore out a new warrant, charging simple larceny...