Word: heards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...literature abroad in the land, whose only obvious fault is that no one can understand it. Last year there appeared a gigantic novel entitled Ulysses by James Joyce. To the uninitiated it appeared that Mr. Joyce had taken some half million assorted words-many such as are not ordinarily heard in reputable circles-shaken them up in a colossal hat, laid them end to end. To those in on the secret the result represented the greatest achievement in modern letters-a new idea in novels...
...write any language at all, so she went around the corner to a small household supply store owned by brawny Luigi Ottavia, who was born in the States. He read the letters to her and wrote her replies. 'Within the morning,' he told me, 'everybody had heard about it.' They called on her one by one, looked at the letters, which they could not read, and talked about them. Some thought nothing would happen. Others, like Luigi Ottavia, who knew something of Americans, reassured Lucia that 'something will come of this...
...time I was there, Lucia, who is a very devout woman, did not know what to think about this strange event that was connected with a ' giornalaio' somewhere in America. Her husband, who could not afford medicine or hospital care, had not heard from the pensions investigator who had finally arrived to look into his case. Bruno was as bare as ever, and the baby, Enzo, was getting by with a cotton singlet. All of them shared a diet which Lucia described as 'a little pasta, a little greens...
...When he heard of the latest lock-in, one American who had spent a lifetime in China threw up his hands. "Believe me, I'm not hysterical," he insisted nervously, "I just want to go home...
...first turn, Jockey Dave Gorman moved Air Lift up on the outside from fifth to third. He was gaining on the leaders, when he broke stride, began to weave. A watcher near the rail had heard something that sounded like a pistol shot. Jockey Gorman slowed the colt down and slipped off. When he saw blood running from Air Lift's left foreleg, Gorman wept...