Word: listen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faint admonition to patronize local industries, the Vagabond intends to depart to other climates. As a parasite upon intellectual life, however, he is conscious of the parries and thrusts, upon his nature, so that in self-defense, and perhaps to imbibe a final morsel of mental nourishment, he will listen to Professor Parker's discourse upon "Parasites," in the Zoology Lecture Room at 10 o'clock...
Forty-three years ago people sat at tables and drank their beer while listening for the first time thus informally to the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The experiment proved so successful that the concerts acquired the name of "Pops" and thrived. Tonight, just as forty-three years ago, people group themselves around tables and listen to the orchestra--only tonight soft drinks will take the place of the beer of years gone...
...excessively droning monologues Lowell Schmaltz gives himself away to inconceivably long-suffering audiences as a self-satisfied ass thriving in a smug over-convenient America, 1928 model. Lively audiences yawn, groan, escape him, but posterity, trapped by the author's undeniable virtuosity in the spoken word, will listen and believe that the mechanistic ass was typical of the age. And posterity may not detect this flaw: "typical" American butter-and-eggers idolized in Lindbergh all the heroism which their own ready-to-wear existence lacked, and would always prefer a Lindbergh to the "honest-to-God master genius...
...know your Friend and other complexes as you of course should you will eat this play alive Sometimes, the reviewer being more or less innocent of such matters, thought that he was being privileged to listen to dialogue which was somewhat over his rather low brow, but this perhaps is to be expected from the pen of the Pulitzer Prize winner, the author of "They Knew What They Wanted" and "Ned MeCobb's Daughter...
...valley of a great and ancient river lie the cities of Cairo, Delta, Thebes, Karnak. They are prosperous and flourishing communities. Their inhabitants move briskly about in Fords, listen in on radio concerts, attend movies, use electric refrigerators and high-grade plumbing, eat trademarked breakfast foods. The river is not the Nile, but the Mississippi. The district is "Little Egypt," sunny farming district in southwest Illinois. "Little Egypt," as such, got national publicity last fortnight when Editor Allen T. Spivey of the East St. Louis (Ill.) Daily Journal, loaded his Congressional ambitions and campaign speeches into an airplane labelled...