Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...composed a letter to Dr. Parkman, requesting him to come to the Medical School at 1:30 p.m. on Friday. When he finished the letter, he gave it to the janitor of the building, Ephraim Littlefield, and asked Littlefield to deliver it to Parkman's house. The janitor had heard Parkman's conversation with Webster in the lab the afternoon before, and knew of the enmity between the two. He gave the letter to a small boy to deliver...
...Ferrys were festively serenaded during the meal by Renaissance music for brass choir, assisted by the chorus of the House Music Society. After the dinner, the Ferrys and guests heard a concert in the Senior Common Room appropriately given over to a complete performance of Brahms' "Love Song Waltzes," Op. 52, for vocal quartet and piano duet. Before the meal, the Ferrys were guests at two receptions in the House...
...rule, whereupon Eleazar bluntly told him he had no right to the High Priesthood. Promptly, John Hyrcanus switched his favor to the pro-Hellenistic Sadducees and the Pharisaic observances were forbidden. It is not hard to imagine, according to some scholars, that a strict-thinking band of Pharisees heard in outspoken Eleazar the voice of a prophet, and fled with him from Wicked Priest Hyrcanus into the desert. ¶Alexander Janneus (103-76 B.C.), son of Hyrcanus, makes an appealing Wicked Priest to some experts. He revenged himself for a Pharisee-led uprising by crucifying 800 leaders of the revolt...
...Lasky Jr., an officer of the Screen Writers' Guild. The academy had asked Lasky to pick up Rich's Oscar after someone claiming he was Rich phoned to say that he had to sit up with his sick wife. But neither Lasky nor anyone else had ever heard of Rich-except Frank King, producer of the award-winning story of a boy whose pet bull is spared in the bull ring because of its gallant fight. King says he knows Rich all right, met him in Europe in 1952 and bought a "five-or six-page treatment...
...woman. Matthew Ligne is about to turn the dread corner of 40 into middle age, accompanied by his faithful ulcer, which bites so vigorously at the wrong moments that it almost assumes the lifelikeness of a pet. Like careful Prufrock ("Do I dare to eat a peach?"), he has heard the mermaids singing each to each. The particular blonde mermaid who obsesses him is a girl only glimpsed behind a window. For Matthew Ligne spends most of his time observing the creatures-married couples, tree surgeons, enterprising alley cats-in the little closed-in world of his backyard...