Word: listen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon returning to Egypt the Khedive summoned a great composer, Verdi. "I wish you to write music for a national anthem," said Ismail. "Like this! Listen. I shall whistle...
Still conscious, with only his right leg broken, Mr. Pruden told the two policemen who picked him up: "Listen boys, I came down here to see if the Lord would look after me. I expected Him to protect me. But He didn't. You can see that for yourselves. . . . Still I'm not faultin' Him. He did pretty well to keep me alive...
...went after a battleship the battleship would certainly be destroyed. It was not so much what Colonel Lindbergh said that was important as the fact that, for the first time, the gospel of aviation was preached by a national hero to whose words the country was ready to listen. (Since the Colonel's return, aviation recruiting centers have been swamped by applicants for the flying service.) From a passenger-carrying standpoint, at least, the U. S. is far behind Europe in aviation-last year, for example, thousands airplaned across the English Channel in a regular airline service...
...tongue or his balance slipped, always has he been what kindly old ladies might call "a real nice boy." Anyone might have said, as Colonel Lindbergh said at the performance of Rio Rita: "I won't keep you long; you'd rather see the show than listen to me." But few would have fulfilled that promise and sat down after a speech of hardly more than a moment's duration. And Colonel Lindbergh's con duct in Paris and in England must have done much to relieve the sore ness caused by tourists with franc-plastered...
...amuse himself during his five months' jail term. The incident seemed closed-triumphantly. It was not. Next day the venerable mother of M. Daudet sent an open letter to Premier Raymond Poincaré which was published in L'Action française. The world could not but listen; for this frail old lady is the widow of Alphonse Daudet. Who does not know his works? Who has not read at least one of his Letters from My Mill? It was as though the great, the universally-beloved Alphonse Daudet, had risen from the grave to defend...