Word: listen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Delayed for two days because Mrs. Coolidge had been ill, the Coolidge Special rolled from Washington, D. C., to Superior, Wis. It was a quiet trip. The President made no back-platform speeches. He did not turn on the radio to listen to the G. O. P. convention...
...keep their guests outside at that time in order to facilitate the work of the Junior and Sophomore ushers. The numerous bands that are placed throughout the Yard will then play for an hour. Small tables and chairs will be placed on the grass for those who wish to listen to the music...
...York City's glib and dapper Mayor, rated to be as smart and faithful a supporter as the Brown Derby could have, touched upon a ticklish subject, in a public speech (to some Roman Catholics) as follows: "It is not so long since I was forced to listen to a tirade of a sort not unfamiliar to you, when a friend from one of the bucolic districts asked me if it were not a fact that all my public acts were dictated from Rome. I said no-I had to be honest with him-they were not, but more...
Grand Sachem Voorhis, by no means feeble, thanked everyone and announced that he hoped to pass his 100th birthday with Alfred Emanuel Smith in the White House. He also said: "Everybody talks about Tammany . . . but hardly anyone seems to know. To listen to them talk you'd think that the Tammany Society was one and the same thing as the Democratic party of this city. But it's not. The Democratic party became connected with Tammany only because it began years ago to hold its meetings in our hall...
...Peter Schubert, the citizens of his birthplace, Vienna, arranged to hear his music. Herr Franz Schalk, conductor of the state opera, directed a splendid performance of the Symphony in C. In the public square, 40,000 people, completely silent in the late spring sunshine, gathered below the musicians to listen. President Michael Hainisch, with his hat off and his white hair blowing, made a speech...