Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took White Rock up with the General Land Office in Washington. U. S. officials had never heard of it, refused to believe its existence until it had been officially surveyed and "claimed" by the U.S. Having rescued the island from geographic oblivion, Mrs. Morton was more determined than ever to possess it. She asked the Land Office to sell it. But the U. S. does not sell such public domain...
After the Spanish War, Mr. Barlow obtained large tracts of land in what later became the heart of Havana. Their title rested upon a 400-year-old Spanish royal grant which bounded them "as far as a dog's bark can be heard." Cuban courts decided he had been despoiled of his property, but the Cuban Government refused to make redress and, vexed by his pestiferousness, expelled him from the island. Not only did Mr. Barlow appeal to the U. S. State Department for assistance, but he rowed with Secretary Kellogg whom he threatened to "bust on the nose...
...column for a rival gum-chewers' sheetlet-the New York Daily Mirror. Many a Winchell reader does not believe all that he reads. Sometimes the Winchell prophecies are right; sometimes they are wrong. But Winchell worshippers have enlarged their vocabularies, learned many a word they never had heard before. Some Winchell Words are: "dotter"-daughter "moom pitcher"-moving picture "Hahhlim"-Harlem "gel"-girl "sealed"-married "Joosh"-Jewish "tome"-book "Horrors Liveright"-Horace Liveright "hush parlor"-speakeasy...
Last February doctors decided that radium, X-rays or other measures could neither cure her or give her surcease from her terrific pain. The son nursed her, heard her cries, watched the wrinkles of agony deepen in her face. She lacked strength and means for suicide. She begged his pity to kill her. She reasoned with him. Her death was certain. He could but bring it to her sooner, and far more mercifully than the cancer was doing. He pondered...
...Adelina Selma ("Georges Lewys") Lewis, authoress; for $1,125,000. Her charge: that Playwright O'Neill "stole" plot and characters for his nine-act Strange Interlude from her privately-printed novel The Temple of Pallas Athenae (1924). Playwright O'Neill, in the South of France, cabled: "Never heard of book mentioned. Person must be crazy...