Word: listen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LISTEN TIME HOW CAN YOU CAPTION PIANIST MARGARET SHOTWELL A BROKEN DOLL WHEN SHE HAS THE GUTS TO KEEP ON LIVING AND WORKING IN SPITE OF HER LOST FORTUNE STOP HOW CAN YOU CALL THE GIRL A DOLL WHO DEVOTES EIGHT HOURS A DAY TO THE PIANO WHEN SHE MIGHT WITH HER YOUTH AND CHARM BE MAKING...
...Then listen. When I am dead they must not place a cross above me. They shall...
Aguilar Lutes. Some years ago a Spanish gentleman, by name Don Francisco Aguilar, was returning home after one of his days spent as royal physician at the Court of young King Alfonso. Passing through one of Madrid's ancient, crooked streets in the still twilight, he stopped to listen to a blind musician. The man's face was tinted and seamed like a Rembrandt burgomaster's. The instrument on which he played was even more unusual. Most people would have called it an outlandish guitar or mandolin. But Don Francisco, cultivated, scholarly, knew it for a lute...
...they don't trouble 'em much; that's sure. Why you know they have what they call bargain day in the federal court there every Friday morning. Line all the bootleggers up in the cellar and let 'em go for two dollars apiece. Why don't they try 'em? Listen, the men won't pay a fine of more than five dollars; they'll fight it out and they know that if they're selling decent stuff that no New York jury would ever convict 'em. It's much cheaper for the 'feds' not to press the charge. Sure sounds...
...made known that, like his father-in-law, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., he would go in for realty operating, would perch a luxurious $3,000,000 cooperative apartment house on a bluff overhanging the East River, at the foot of Beekman Place. Atop the building. Owner & Mrs. Milton will listen to tooting tugs. see the twinkling lights of Long Island City and Astoria, from a sumptuous penthouse...