Word: hearsays
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...World War I, sea battles were painted almost entirely from hearsay, which did not necessarily interfere with their quality as art. Thomas Birch's oil of the set-to between the United States and the British Macedonian in 1812 had a familiar and a handsome air. It was the fish's-eye view typical of the period-splendid, stormy and bloodless...
...which methods of communication are such that bad news from every quarter pounds upon our sensibilities almost hourly, we must doggedly determine to limit to a bare minimum the acceptance of hearsay evidence...
...grounds that the question and the hearings were unconstitutionally trying to invade the rights, privileges, and immunity of the American citizen. When it was all over these ten were cited for contempt, fired from their jobs, and blacklisted in Hollywood; all this on the basis of unproved accusations and hearsay evidence...
...Torrents of Spring, Ernest Hemingway wrote: " 'Further beyond there would be Indianapolis, Indiana where Booth Tarkington lived. He had the wrong dope, that fellow.' . . . 'Nobody had any damn business to write about it [war], though, that didn't at least know about it from hearsay. Like this American writer Willa Cather who wrote a book about the war where all the last part of it was taken from the action in the Birth of a Nation.' " The Torrents of Spring also informs the public of the weaknesses and strengths of Sherwood Anderson...
...said he had pulled "Wong's body" out of the river-and then admitted he had not known the deceased. "Then how did you know the body was Wong's?" Retorted the fisherman: "Wong's parents told me." Any Chinese could understand that, but it was "hearsay" in Anglo...