Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, Democratic firebrand, Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, Republican man-of-all-words, spoke in the same room in Washington, D. C., one night last week. Some 150 newsmen heard them. Yet not a word of what they said appeared in the public prints. It was the annual winter dinner of the Gridiron Club; at such a function the club beards itself with the phrase, "reporters are never present...
...gentleman has ever heard your story before...
Among leading English physicians the opinion was frequently heard last week that had His Majesty been stricken even five years ago by so virulent an infection he would have died within ten days. The authoritative British Medical Journal told in simple, vivid language of the new means used to strengthen and increase the number of white corpuscles in the blood royal: "The infection belongs to a type with which clinicians have become much better acquainted in the last ten years. . . . There is no set duration and no crisis. . . . There are phases or chapters on infection . . . and . . . the temperature settles slowly...
...intelligence is only apparent," explained Mr. Wenslely; "it of course has no brain, and it can only do certain things under certain conditions worked out previously by a human mind. The machine was built at the Westinghouse Laboratories to answer a definite need, but, unfortunately the publicity department heard about it, and what started out as a serious invention has turned into a vaudeville act. Televox now has three brothers who are being shown in different parts of the country...
...heard Bill Nye tell stories and Frank Harris converse. Eugene Debs, Eugene Field, the late La Follette, James Whitcomb Riley, O. Henry, Helen Keller and numerous newsboys, janitors, cabbies, children were or are among his acquaintances...