Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Babs took the children to Campobello for the summers. From Washington, Franklin wrote her hurried notes. From a July 1917 letter: "Last night I thought I heard a burglar and sat at the head of the stairs with the gun for half an hour, but it turned out to be the cat . . ." He visited the fleet and found "things not right . . . due to old lady officers and lack of decision in Department...
...touched a piece of cloth, I had to buy it. Now I can go anywhere and my children go to school, but I am still a sweeper, and my pay of 65 rupees a month does not buy me what 20 used to." The sweeper had not even heard of the Constituent Assembly, which was sitting only three miles from his mud hut. Told about the abolition of untouchability, he said sourly: "I would like to see the day when some of these words are turned into action...
...heard from other people who have slept there. One of them heard footsteps and hoofbeats in the courtyard every evening, and finally moved away. Another was the landlady's daughter. She once felt a spot of darkness move toward her in the night and mumble some gibberish in her ear. The next morning her ear was full...
...went no fast we're not sure how many bookstores we visited," the two men reported on their return. "But we covered most of those we knew and several we'd never heard of before...
Butler believed that he was by nature a painter, spent years turning out mediocre canvases and damning art critics who had never heard of the "great" artist (a 16th Century Fleming named Jean de Wespin, alias Giovanni Tabachetti). He composed minuets, gavottes and fugues in the manner of Germany's Handel. He translated the Iliad and the-Odyssey into a breezy English that made the dons wince ("Calypso trembled with rage when she heard this. 'You gods,' she exclaimed, 'ought to be ashamed of yourselves' "), then added insult to injury by claiming that the "Homer...