Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Randolph Hearst: " At a convention of motion picture men in New York, I said in a speech: 'I have heard a good deal in the publishing business about the necessity of writing down to the public taste and I have never found that necessity to exist.'" Lord Asquith: " I wrote an article for a charity of Paisley, my constituency, in which I declared: ' Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life...
Still another plan for enlargement has frequently been heard, and is perhaps worth consideration. Major Moore's two suggestions will merely put a curved end on the north to match the south, and the capacity will be only five to ten thousand more than that of the present wooden stands. But if the straight sides were extended for some distance before beginning the curve, at least twenty thousand seats could be gained. It would be necessary to move the playing field a proportional distance--for example, if the sides were extended fifty yards, the playing field would be moved twenty...
...among radicals. " Politics," he will tell you now, "have nothing whatever to do with letters." For that reason, he has turned his political ideas into critical channels and his ability to analyze our current literary product is appreciable. During many days and nights spent in his home, I have heard only one political discussion, and that one, to my untutored brain at least, as harmless as a revival meeting. There, however, one does hear good conversation. It is one of the few places I know where it is possible to discuss abstract ideas over a long period of time without...
...playhouse within walking distance, at least, of Broadway, and the theatrical season a period that begins in the Fall with the appearance of an A. H. Woods bedroom-farce and ends shortly after straw-hat-day with a wave of musical comedies. Of course the a. N. Y. has heard about stock companies-but, if he reads theatrical reviews, he doubtless connects them with the grand old days...
...twelve " greatest" women chosen by the League of Women Voters have, of course, aroused rabid discussion. The burden of many criticisms is: " We never heard of some of them! " Some of the less known...