Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scarcely a year goes by in Cambridge without the appearance of some new literary venture. Those who follow such things will remember "Alice in Cambridge", of course, and will have heard of or seen the parody of the Harvard Magazine, the "Aristocrat", and "Proictaplan", the red-ink "Gadfly", and, last year the "Eight Most Harvard Poets". And now another is added to the list...
...Love With Love" and it impressed us as one of the most amusing offerings of the season. We quite exhausted our vocabulary of adjectives in singing the praises of Miss Fontaine and still we thought we were saying scarcely enough. Accordingly it was without enthusiasm that we heard the play was to be produced this week by the Boston Stock Company. To put anyone else in the Lynn Fontaine role seemed almost a profanation. We went to scoff--and we stayed to have a good time...
...Heard Bishop Nicholson of Chicago, head of the Anti-Saloon League, advocate that no Methodist workers be henceforth sent to Columbia University for training...
...Heard the report of the Bishops on the state of the Church. Venerable Bishop Berry of Philadelphia, author of this report, began reading it, his voice failed; Bishop McDowell of Washington substituted, but the venerable Bishop returned to conclude it. The report advocated...
...Feng is the really powerful general, now encamped near Peking, who is continually reported as having converted whole regiments. His soldiers are often heard singing the Doxology, Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, Bringing in the Sheaves, etc. But the word? employed are often pagan and profane...