Word: heards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blaikie, had asked Franklin to run (under New York law a Congressman need not be a resident of the district he represents.) Young (34), husky (6 ft. 4 in., 200 Ibs.) Franklin quickly accepted, thereby becoming the first of the four Roosevelt boys to seek public office. His mother heard the news in Chicago, and confided to readers of "My Day": "I was a little appalled by this announcement." Besides his glamorous name, young Franklin had a good Navy record as a destroyer officer (Silver Star, Legion of Merit), and a brief career as spear-carrier in New Dealing ranks...
...Cemetery-Untouched. Three months ago the first settlers arrived, each equipped by the government with an iron cot, mattress, two blankets and twelve Israeli pounds ($36). A young Rumanian Jew recently uncovered two metal washpots in his yard. Other settlers heard of it and began spading up crocks of wheat, kitchen utensils and tins of gasoline...
Armed with a hot tip on number 2 and unable to watch from any place but the far turn, the two saw the horses toddic by into the stretch. They heard the following jockey repartee as the beasts passed by. "Hey, where's number 2? Let him through, let him through...
...unforgivable oversight. The only uncooperative figure was Trinity Church itself, which turned out to be an acoustical flop. It has no capacity for distributing sound throughout its Romanesque caverns, and if you were sitting as I was with the basses and tenors turned away from you, you scarcely heard them...
Great praise must' be given to the orchestra, which supplied the best accompaniment I have heard in a Cambridge group. But the laurels really belong to Mr. Patterson, the conductor. At no time was there the slightest doubt that he was in complete control and knew just what he was doing. He has a sense of contrast and dramatic effect which he has trained his musicians to execute. The mighty invocation, "Jesu Christe," followed by a bursting "Cum Saneto Spiritu" was as impressive as any singing around. Though the memory of the "Dona Nobis Pacem" was destroyed by a recessional...