Word: heeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list to which cinemanufacturers may have paid closer heed was compiled by Variety of the six pictures which drew the largest gross box office profits in 1931. Alphabetically, the six were...
Senators, Congressmen, editors, lawyers, leaders in every field vied to heap the highest praise upon the infirm old gentleman who lives in a red brick house on a Washington side street. To this outpouring, however, he paid no heed. Only when his eight colleagues on the court wrote him a solemn letter of farewell did he publicly reply...
...pedestrian in Ireland's County Clare is warned not to carry out his intention of climbing to a certain mountain lake: a great serpent is imprisoned in it, will be allowed to go free the day before the Day of Judgment. The pedestrian does not heed the warning, sees the serpent sure enough...
Such was the price wheatmen in Texas and Oklahoma as well as Kansas had to pay for their bull-headed refusal to heed the Federal Farm Board's plea to reduce acreage. Over & over had they been warned that the bottom would drop out of their staple market if they persisted in overproduction. Now they were literally reaping as they had sowed...
...When fortnight ago Vice President Curtis and Senator Watson begged the Board to hold its 200.000,000 bu. off the market long enough for prices to rise, Board officials obliquely declared that such requests were inspired by avaricious wheat traders plotting to rob the farmer. Few persons appeared to heed these vague accusations. But last week the Farm Board took them to the White House, got President Hoover to broadcast them...