Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second University Crew-Stroke, Gale; 7, J. P. Hubbard; 6, Macomber; 5, Johnson; 4, Darlington; 3, Barton; 2, Hoover; bow, Righter; cox., Heard...
...naturally pleasing to be honored to preside over a convention that will assuredly nominate the next President of the United States"?the words came naturally to Mr. Harrison. They flowed from his tongue without a second's hesitation when he heard that he had been chosen as temporary Chairman of the Democratic Convention. He is a natural born partisan, and his name...
...pressed. Zihlman, Langley. A committee of the House, which was investigating charges against two Representatives -Zihlman of Maryland for accepting a bribe, and Langley of Kentucky for conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act-returned a report. In the Zihlman case the committee agreed unanimously that conflicting evidence had been heard and that "taken as a whole . . . the evidence does not establish the truth of the charge." In the Langley case, the committee had suspended inquiry when the Representative was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury. He has since been convicted and is appealing the case (see under), but he will...
...Alexander Black, Mary Austin, Gertrude Atherton, novelists; Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet. Below, at smaller tables, were countless others?playwrights such as Owen Davis and Zoe Akins; novelists such as Fannie Hurst and Harvey Fergusson; critics such as Henry Seidel Canby and Clayton Hamilton. Such a clatter! I have never heard more noise...
...month ago, one A. M. Snook, of the Aurora (Ill.) Beacon-News, journeyed to Manhattan to the annual meeting of the Associated Press, heard President Coolidge make a speech (TIME, April 28). Last week it became known that back in Aurora, Mrs. Snook had listened in by radio, had heard above the applause which greeted the President, a "wild and enthusiastic yell." Forewarned, she recognized Mr. Snook's "holler," "knew that he was all right...