Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present times the breakfast table has been supplanted by the quick lunch system with its ready-to-serve conversation, and the coffee-houses of the seventeenth aned eighteenth centuries have given way to gatherings where "the one about the traveling salesman" or the too-familiar cry. "Here you heard this one?" are the order of the day. No more is needed in order to be a "wit" than a superficial line of questionable repartee or the ability to first casually...
...Julie, making it a little more than bearable but less than convincing. The rest of the cast was negligible. A one-man play is this, but it was never intended to be done by a supporting company that found verse difficult to say, and more difficult to make heard. Too often did the minor players leave the stage with a racking stage laugh that chilled the spectator, and gave him a sense that they were pleased to have done for the moment with their share in the production. The inane giggle that overcomes most actors whose parts call...
...means of conveying men, merchandise or intelligence. Wind was the only power for crossing the sea. Today anything of public interest that happens in any civilized country is known in every newspaper office over the earth almost as soon as it occurs. A man's voice can now be heard all over this country, and soon will be audible over the whole world. Flight across the Atlantic is an accomplished fact; and during the Great War we sent a million armed men to Europe in a few months. Civilization has always been deeply influenced by inventions. No one can doubt...
...German Navy as 1 Thought It Was", or (De) Ludendorf's famous "The Eternal Triangle and the Triple Alliance". The Hindenburg line is still known only through the pages of the public press. But at last the voice of our opponents in the "late unpleasantness" is to be heard; the memoirs of the Ex-Kaiser (X standing as usual for the unknown) are shortly to be laid before the American public by the McClure Syndicate...
...newly-elected president of the Associated Harvard Clubs will be introduced at 9.20, following a brief address by President E. M. Grossman '96, the retiring president. President Lowell will be heard from 9.45 to 9.55. After his address one stanza of "Fair Harvard" will be sung by the assemblage to organ accompaniment, and at 10 o'clock there will be a program of selected numbers by the Pops Concert Orchestra, consisting of seventy-five members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...