Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wreaths of smoke ascended to the sky; two men spoke, yet no one heard them speak; finally, after the smoke had cleared, it was stated by the British Foreign Office...
Bedlam was let loose. Cheers and shouts for Trotzky filled the Opera House. The orchestra tried to compel silence by playing The Internationale, but apparently no one heard it. Throughout the earsplitting demonstration Trotzky sat motionless, his head resting on his hands. Minute followed minute, and still the cheers continued to reverberate from wall to wall until, ten minutes later, Nature conquered the super-vociferous by robbing them of their breath...
Fifteen thousand people trouped into the Ark. It was a bigger, better Ark than they had ever witnessed before. With the great amplifiers everybody heard and everybody saw?a seething mass of people with animalcules performing on the far horizon...
...individuals, may think of the Volstead Law, we are morally bound to restrict prescriptions to medicinal purposes. Selling one's prescription blanks to the druggist is worse than fee splitting, and should be cause for exclusion from membership in the American Medical Association!" Subcostalgia. The surgical section heard Dr. Marshall Clinton, associate professor of surgery in the University of Buffalo, describe a condition called "subcostalgia," which he asserted is fairly common. It occurs usually on the right side in right-handed people, as a result of stooping over. The patient may complain of pain before and after an abdominal...
...National Convention found little favor with Percy Hammond and Franklin Pierce Adams, two famed Manhattan colyumists. Said Hammond: 'The keynote speech of Congressman Burton. . . an aged man, was a complete assemblage of all the honest and senile platitudes. . . It was the longest, dullest speech that I have ever heard.' Said Adams: 'Over the radio, applause for a platitude sounds even sillier than it does when you're one of the applauders yourself...