Word: heresay
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Ashton: What you just said is the kind of evidence on which our position rests, namely the use of these kinds of substances in warfare is based totally on heresay. At this point, the evidence is quite inadequate...
This much is gleaned from heresay, for the manager has disappeared and the help has been overhauled. In a place as ragged and permissive as Ann Arbor the affair was not one to attract notice, and no one knows who might have known Kimberly Rath in these last months. It is difficult to picture Kimberly, the daredevil mischief maker, the enthusaiast and extremist, the wild child living high and happy with a madness holed up in this middle-aged hideaway. Perhaps she needs this, a steady straight place, that could impose a predictable order on her days and restore...
...moments of supreme pianistic ecstasy throws his feet on the keyboard. No. 2 man is Bulee ("Slim") Gaillard, a skyscraping, zooty Negro guitarist. Gibson & Gaillard have recorded such hep numbers as Cement Mixer, which has sold more than 20,000 discs in Los Angeles alone; Yop Rock Heresay, Dreisix Cents and Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine? Sample lyrics...
...essays of Dr. Sargent upon physical culture in Scribner later, there is hardly an excuse now for the prejudiced and offensive view of the game which is taken by people in general-people, too, who have rarely, if ever, seen an exhibition, but who form their opinion from heresay. There is danger, no doubt, of minor hurts as there is in everything which enters into the domain of athletics; there is danger, remotely, of serious accident as there is likewise in the most simple forms of gymnastic exercises. But for dash and vigor and the highest sense of physical perfection...
...elective system at Harvard has its latest development in the determination of students of the medical school to have lectures on homeopathy, in the face of the refusal of the faculty to permit such heresay to be preached from any pulpit under their control. This is an extension of the system which was perhaps unlooked for by the college authorities; but it is logical, and, what it more to the point, the boys are set upon having it.-Record...