Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diplomatically concealing his feelings. He has been attending arms conferences for the last four years. First it was the 1925 "Traffic-in-Arms" conference, then the 1926-27 preparatory arms commission and finally the ill-starred 1927 conference on naval armaments, of which he was chairman. He has heard all the polite haggling of open and closed diplomacy. He has seen admirals and generals mix a sour brew of national honor, strategy and armament statistics. And he sums his observations thus...
Reporter Owen, who wrote himself into a state when an ice slide recently endangered the party (TIME, Feb. 11), this time abstained from hysterics and heroics. Perhaps having heard echoes of the way some of his romantic writings have been received in the U. S., he let Harold June dictate a first-hand account of almost incredible winds in the Rockefeller Mountains...
...face and big eyes, painted by Romney and Gainsborough, were so widely admired that her elderly husband investigated no rumored infidelities "for fear they might be true." When Nelson left her to save his country, he asked her to sing for him once more−and there now is heard, apparently issuing from the lips of Corinne Griffith, "You'll Take the High Road and I'll Take the Low." Except for such occasional bathos, and for an effective sound accompaniment of guns and waves, this picture is silent, and the Admiral's orders to his fleet...
Henry Mond, capture a seat for the Conservatives last week, by 3,000 plurality, whereas in 1924 the same seat went to another Conservative by a 9,000 majority. This bad news for Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was nothing, however, compared to that which he soon heard from North Lanarkshire, Scotland, where an immemorially Conservative seat was being fought for by Lord Scone, son of the Earl of Mansfield, a Scottish grand seignieur. Daring Laborites sent against Lord Scone pretty Miss Jenny Lee, 24, daughter of a coal-miner, "a dad who never in all his life earned more than...
Theologians have decided that it happened on a Friday, April 7, 1899 years ago. At 3 o'clock the women and gamins who had climbed the hill, and the casual Roman soldiers who had gambled for the clothes, heard the words, "Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit." So brave, so peaceful was the death that even the Romans were troubled. Clouds gathered and there was an earthquake...