Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Force, the fire brigade, countless bands, etc. Then came the City Marshal, "an official chosen for his handsomeness," on a fine, prancing horse. Among the thousands upon thousands of people who lined the streets to witness the show the usual comments at the expense of the Marshall were heard: " 'E don't 'arf fancy hisself, don't 'e," yelled a shrill female voice. "Chuck it, Liz," growled her young man. "Jus' look at 'is 'at," shrieked the damsel. The crowd looked; and although they had all seen it before, they broke into jeering laughter. And so it is year after...
...order to be heard...
...they may, it is not something altogether new and baffling to them; nor possibly, is it the first time they have damned a judge. In fact, the damning may be move a matter of habit than of irritation. In my own sport, if every judge that I have heard condemned to the bonfire here in America had gone his way then and there, there would be about three competent fencers left in America-and those merely because they have always been too canny to act as judges! No; rancor over a judicial decision is nothing...
...Loeffler's new symphonic poem. He reminisces in music of a time when he did not know he would be a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, nor a famous composer. Opening with church bells, the poem sings of a Russian village, Smiela, where as a boy Loeffler heard "Russian peasant songs, the Yonrod's Litany-prayer, fairy tales and dance songs." Here is a novelty. So far, it has been given only by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra...
...Sunday morning, in Binghamton, N. Y., the Rev. D. Stanley Shaw waxed warm as he got on with his sermon in the Tabernacle Church. One thing had led to another; Pastor Shaw found himself talking about U. S. newspapers. As reported by those who heard him, Pastor Shaw declared that the average modern newspaper, not excluding the dailies right there in Binghamton, were not worth more than 15 minutes of the time of a Christian reader. Some in the congregation quoted Pastor Shaw as adding: "Modern newspapers are a stench in the nostrils of decent people and reek with accounts...