Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outlawing the anti-Negro practices of the South. Such fiery Southerners as Fielding Lewis Wright, governor of Mississippi, forthwith raised the cry of secession-from the Democratic Party, not the nation. When President Truman urged Congress to enact his committee's recommendations into law, the outcry could be heard from Charleston to Little Rock...
...Candidate's Roots. Grandpa Thurmond had known the poverty of the post-bellum South and the bitterness of the days when the Carpetbaggers swarmed in. South Carolina's legislature had been packed and dominated by illiterate and bewildered Negroes. Grandpa Thurmond and his neighbors had heard the voice of Pennsylvania's sadistic Thaddeus Stevens thundering out the need for holding the South "as a conquered people," for forcing the South to "eat the fruit of foul rebellion...
...contemporaries of Oscar Wilde. The talk is about their hosts who have just opened in a new play. One particularly saucy young man tells how Gay (Miss Gordon) was "discovered" by Gerald, already an established star, when she was a chamber-maid at the Palmer House. (A titter is heard around the stage at that remark which manages somehow to spread out into the audience: perhaps the playwright has not misjudged the audience after all.) Nevertheless, the young man continues, everyone loves Gay and just hates Gerald because he is so mean to her and is, in addition, a terrible...
More enthusiastic, if less flattering and abrupt than the Record (headquarters of the vituperative Colonel Egan, who, incidentally, has not been heard from yet), the Boston Globe and Herald-Tribune, and the New York Times followed their first punches Monday with roundhouse fistfulls of laurels Tuesday...
...instruct with an entirely different approach," said Francis X. Sutton, junior fellow who served as assistant to Professor Parsons. "You can't take for granted the little things you can expect of a Harvard audience. For instance, not a single one of our pupils had ever heard of Betsy Ross...