Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...withdraw their remarks, but refused, despite the advice of J. Ramsey McDonald, Parliamentary Labor leader. They were then suspended by a vote of 258 to 70. The Rev. Campbell then took up the cry of " murderers." He was suspended by a vote of 276 to 60. Buchanan soon after heard Sir George Hamilton refer to Emanuel Shinwell as a " Jew." Shinwell said he was proud of the fact, but Buchanan called the entire Conservative Party " white-livered cowards," and " dirty dogs." After he had accused the Speaker of partiality, his suspension was carried by 286 votes...
...farce ? exultation ? despair?coming in every morning to the breakfast-tables of a score or fifty not-so-very-extraordinary citizens of these states, done up in all sorts of envelopes, postmarked with the names of places of which in many cases the recipients have never even heard...
...conference, held in Chicago, was attended by some 800 delegates and heard speeches from a number of prominent men-Samuel Gompers, Senator Capper of Kansas, Senator Copeland of New York, Governor Preus of Minnesota, Julius H. Barnes, President of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. There was little unanimity in their counsels, however: Samuel Gompers called for better organization among the farmers; Governor Preus advocated organized study of their problems; Senator Capper declared that the farmers were ruined by manipulators of wheat prices, saying "the Chicago Board of Trade has become the world's greatest gambling place" (John...
...scholarly inclined may link this account of genesis with many stories of how other pieces of music were composed. There is, for instance, the Fuga del Gatto of Scarlatti. One day the composer heard a strange series of piano notes. His cat had scampered across the keyboard. The notes were firm in his memory, and he used them as the melody, the theme for a highly learned and intricate composition, a fugue...
Leopold Godowsky, now on a concert tour in Java, has high phrases to speak in praise of Javanese music and the national Javanese instrument, the gamelang. This is a clear-toned string instrument with that beauty of sound that you find in oriental string instruments. People who have heard it speak of its haunting, lingering tunefulness under the fingers of Javanese players...