Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about the date of this proceeding, the American Hotel Association convened at Cleveland, heard the Chairman of its "Educational Committee," John McFerlane Howie, declare: "The prohibition law raised the hotelkeeper from the level of saloonkeeper and placed him on a level with any other legitimate business man. His business today is better than ever before...
...outstanding "traitors": Louis Malvy, exiled for défaitisme, Joseph Caillaux, convicted for "endangering France's alliances" (TIME, June 2). Everyone began to shout at once, a not uncommon occurrence in the Chambre. Then, high above the mighty tumult, a shrill voice from the Right was heard enunciating the name of Mati Hari (famed Dutch dancer, shot as a spy during the War; alleged mistress of Louis Malvy). Instantly Louis, whose term of exile was recently completed and who now sits in the Chambre as a Communist Député, rose to his feet, arms akimbo, fixing...
Centre of attraction was a three-storied, wooden pyramid "40 feet high." Here soldiers stood in lines to form pathways to the pyramid. A shout was heard; then gathering force, like a mighty wind lashing itself into a tornado, the shout increased to a dull reverberant roar; along the pathways came the leader of Russia. Then deal silence. Suddenly a score or more of bands struck up the Internationale and down one of the aisles came some French Communists from the Department of the Seine to present to Peasant Kalinin, Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committe...
Meantime, the usual growls from a defeated Mexican party were heard. Supporters of General Flores declared that the Callistas used trickery, bribery and other forms of corruption...
...rake who eventually receives what is known in ring parlance as the raspberry. The American public would not tolerate any of its fistic heroes in the latter unflattering light. And the American public could not conceivably believe in the verisimilitude of the first role. For none in America ever heard of a poor young boxer...