Word: heard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporters had already heard about its nature. The State Department had disclosed that it expressed "the earnest hope that nothing may occur to injure the peaceful relations of Finland and Russia," and that U. S. action had been taken independently of that of any other country. If reporters could make no bang-up story of that, it was just because, when diplomats really go into action, bang-up stories are usually misleading...
...Crimson gridder was heard to remark yesterday, "Anyway, it'll be an interesting game." The restraining hand of Dick Harlow on his quarterback will be lifted today, and the orders are: Shoot the works. Against Bates and Chicago, passes and trick plays were held in reserve. Today the Crimson will have to dig deep into its bag of tricks and hope that enough of those puzzlers succeed...
...evening of pure, concentrated hellraising, we suggest Fats Waller at the Southland. I heard him again last week, and can remember few times when I have had as much fun. The six guys in Fats' band make more music than most of the big bands ever think of making. Eugene Cedric on tenor plays solos that rampage in much the same manner that Chu Berry's do. Everybody else, including Herman Autrey on trumpet, is just as good...
...Neck Bay. Not for months had he been seen around the docks where in days of health he loved to tinker at his motorboat engines with his derby awry and his white shirt rumpling up under his suspenders. Not for more than a year had his quick laugh been heard in any of the 24 Chrysler plants. His friends feared that Board Chairman Walter Chrysler, burned out at 64 by the gruelling drive from the roundhouse to a paneled office, would never mix in motor's hurly-burly again...
Driving through Boston, Mass., one James J. Behr listened attentively to a broadcast of Information Please, obediently shut his eyes when he heard Master of Ceremonies Clifton Fadiman ask the guest experts to shut their eyes and tell the color of their ties. The experts knew and the sponsors paid nothing. Mr. Behr, who also knew, hit the car ahead of him, paid...