Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...select committee from the House of Commons meet with the Britten committee, "preferably in Canada after March 4," for "friendly discussion" about applying the much-vexed principle of seapower equality between the U. S. and Britain to all warships unaffected by the Washington treaty of 1922. When Secretary Kellogg heard about it he as good as called Mr. Britten a fool. "I refer you to the Constitution and the laws," he said. The Constitution, of course, vests the direction of U. S. foreign policy in the President. The Logan Act of 1799 makes it a criminal offense for any citizen...
Holiday. Among the most nostalgic of musical instruments are those tinkling boxes which the members of the present generation heard in their nurseries and can never hear again without experiencing some intense and hungry emotion. By causing one of these primitive gramophones to bray gently from deep stage, Author Philip Barry suddenly twists the mood of Holiday from one of gaiety to one of longing...
...University City in Madrid. Importantly present in Box No. i were Don Alfonso of Orleans, Infante of Spain, first cousin of the King, his wife the Infanta Beatrice, sister of Queen Marie of Rumania. Ritually they joined the applause for tender, tripping tunes, for tender, tearful tunes. Gladly they heard next day that the performance had earned their home university some...
...simple process of keeping a reminiscent journal for six months, "that c'toonist" has told his neighbors, who for him include all mankind, how life has been with him; whom he has known, what he has seen, read, heard, thought...
...heard all there was to hear, in Paris, about Gustave Dore, the enormously popular and prolific illustrator who most influenced his own art. He reached Paris six years too late (1889) to see Dore. Bouguereau was one of his teachers...