Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find that when I walk around my library table for an hour before dinner and think of the subject I'm to talk on, everything I have ever heard or read about that subject comes back to me. After my speech, I go home and am in bed about 11 o'clock. The next morning, I am fresh and ready to be at work on time. For years, I worked in my office without even going out to lunch ?I ate it on my desk...
General Maurice Sarrail, who commanded the Third Army in France during the War, has many friends; these friends started a verbal rumpus to have him made a Marshal of France. The friends of General Michel de Castelnau, also numerous, heard the faint hubbub of Sarrailites and started a campaign to have their hero made a Marshal of France. When Generals Fayolle and Franchet d'Esperey were given the batons of a marshal, General de Castelnau was one of the disappointed Generals. His friends declared that the authorities had slighted him be cause of his well-known Royalist sympathies...
...What is more, I'll tell what I am doing here, sir," she continued. "I am here on behalf of the parents of Harvard boys to watch them and to note their conduct. Haven't you read the papers lately? Haven't you heard what an immoral place Harvard has turned out to be? Well, I have, and I intend to put a stop to it, to lead these boys back to the paths of righteousness and morality...
...cars nearby in the same predicament. We struggled, and cursed,--got out in the mud and rain and secured two helpers to give us assistance. Football terms are the best description, for we rarely gained ten yards in four struggles. After about an hour of that discouraging work, we heard a lot of noise behind, and down the road came a Ford coupe--nothing daunted and with the greatest ease. At that moment my friend and I were feeling about our lowest, and we were strongly reminded that the days of Sir Philip Sidney are not over...
...have never met a kindly old man, if you have never seen the village band in full regalia, with Fezes and substantial "cuds", if you've never heard a farm-hand quartet around the old oaken bucket, nor seen simple Uncle Josh cavorting in a palatial New York Mansion, if you don't believe that "ridin" over the New Hampshire Hills is better than a Turkish bath, or if you haven't stamped or clapped at a Virginia Reel in the kitchen of the farm, if you haven't seen and heard and done all the things that...