Word: listen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the alacrity of Mayor Walker's political opponents to pooh-pooh the idea of their being connected with such underhanded operations as wire-tapping was matched only by the promptness with which the Mayor himself assured the public he cared not a whit if they did listen, one must conclude that some motive lying deeper than matters of state actuated the recent listening in on the Mayor's telephones...
...course, suggested that this eavesdropper was someone who dearly loved and trusted the Mayor, but who still preferred to make sure her suspicious were groundless just for her own satisfaction. Or again, perhaps the wiretapper's admiration for the Mayor's personality led him to take this opportunity to listen in to become more intimate with and perhaps to capture its secret...
...this tariff bill was what the President had promised. The Democratic party was a low-tariff party with its past written all over the pages of tariff history. The Republican party alone ever gave the farmers any protection. No greater calamity could happen to the U. S. than to listen to the low-tariff advocates. So Generalissimo Smoot...
...going to fall! You can make it? Stick! Don't be yellow'! Don't listen to him! You're not going to fall...
...clock Sections D, E, and F will listen to a lecture on Statistics in Room 100 and Section C will hear about the same subject in Room 424. A talk on Marketing will be delivered to Section F in Room 332 at 12 o'clock and at 2 o'clock Sections B, C, and D will convene in Room 100 to hear a speech on Finance. At the same hour Section E will receive a lecture on Marketing in Room 122. Dean Donham will present the introductory problem to all the sections at 3 o'clock in Room...