Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blank cartridge fired against a blank wall"President Hoover heard that that was how potent Publisher William Randolph Hearst described the Hoover speech to the Associated Press on law enforcement...
Innocents of Paris (Paramount). Maurice Chevalier is a French cabaret singer known in the U. S. only to the few who have heard him in Paris, or on nights when he did not have a cold during his short engagement this spring in Florenz Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic (TIME, March 4). He had been built into a cinema celebrity with the most expensive and intense advertising campaign ever invested in a foreign actor. In this talkie he pulls a little boy out of a French suicide-river so that he can sing to him. He is poor, penniless, a junkman...
...Children (First National). The marriage, parting and reunion of Maxwell Anderson's hero and heroine?one of the best of all U. S. plays?becomes heavy and slow in this partly-vocal photograph directed with sincerity but without much vitality by Gregory La Cava. Corinne Griffith's voice, heard for the first time, is nasal, unattractive, but somehow memorable. Best shot: Miss Griffith getting her sweetheart to marry...
...broke. Two of the balloons descended, discovered they had been blown in circles all night, were only 27 and 32 miles from Pittsburgh. One other balloon came down in Pennsylvania. Seven others descended across the broad expanse of upper New York. After 36 hours, all but two had been heard from: Navy No. 1, piloted by Lieut. Thomas G. W. Settle and Ensign Wilfred Bushnell; and Detroit Times, piloted by Arthur G. Schlosser and E. J. Hill. Far beyond the marks of any of the others, Navy 1 came to earth, nearly 43 hours after starting, at Canavoy, Prince Edward...
...participation in the solution of world problems. On the following morning, he was too ill to take his turn at the Chapel. He was to have preached here again on the 29th of May, 1929, so that the service just mentioned was the last at which his voice was heard...