Word: listen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long and probably boring-"Chocolate Soldier Medley," perhaps, or "Selections from La Traviata." The music of the people was not bedight with red, gold and purple seals and it was not twelve inches wide. Such stuff was suspect, for the elect. Not until radio proved that the people will listen to music, even concerts and operas, until the orchestra drops dead or the vacuum tubes blow out, did phonograph-makers realize what a musical bonanza they had failed to exploit. And if long-time records would sell, then music that it takes a long time to play could be recorded...
...conscientious Vagabond who would learn the troubles of Europe today, during all of her life and struggle, nothing could prove more lucrative than to begin this bright new day by listening to Professor Usher lecture in Widener U at 9 o'clock on the subject, "Disorders of the monetary systems of Europe." Having obtained his fill on the subject of European politics, the Vagabond may then turn his interest and attention to the politics of Chile, which has hitherto been considered but slightly in his daily walks around the Yard. The Vagabond may learn of the most recent political developments...
...founder. So greatly do Britishers respect their p_olice that citizens swelled with indignation last week when the Chief Commissioner of London Police charged "bobbies" with being discourteous and inefficient. One nice old lady accosted a "bobby," presented him with half a crown, said: "Now, don't you listen to what anybody says...
Desist, lady, from your pressing. Listen to a guy confessing That be thinks your hauteur's simply grand...
...thanes (so the play goes) have feasted until dawn in the smoky barn-hall at Winchester. The roast boar's head is hewn to skull and tusks. Mead has been spilled on the oak and the king's strong-thewed companions, none over 30, sprawl, snore or listen intently to the end of a long-drawn saga sung by Maccus, the harper. They thump the board with their cups at the finish. The ladies, gathered apart, lament the saga's true-loving hero...