Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day His Majesty held the third Privy Council at which he has presided since his convalescence began (TIME, Feb. 4). Later he gave private audience to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, heard all about the Naval Disarmament plans of "a dear old Quaker" (see p. 26). Next morning, still unwearied, the King-Emperor received a string of Ministers, including Ministress o;f Labor Miss Margaret ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, onetime starveling clerk in a draper's shop. Cheerful and quietly dressed, she entered Buckingham Palace as the first of her sex ever summoned there officially as a Minister...
...heard it was his lungs...
...wasn't really a sanitarium! Do you know, I've heard...
Taking a long farewell to amateur piano playing, Pianist Shotwell shrewdly announced, that she might henceforth be heard in vaudeville...
...Prince Umberto of Italy riding in a Brussels street at the moment when an anti-Fascist took a shot at him (TIME, Nov. 4). You heard the shot, saw the crowd swerve to pounce on the assassin. You saw the young Prince, his face tight as a drum, proceed to lay a wreath on a monument as though nothing had happened...