Word: listen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each side swears manfully that it wants no strike. The miners insist that the operators are trying to increase their profits and will not listen to reason. The operators offer repeatedly to arbitrate, which the miners will not do, saying that arbitration has cost them too much in former years. So the deadlock persists...
...Bowling Green, Mo., Mrs. Champ Clark, widow of the late Speaker of the House, contributed an article to the press: Listen friends of Champ Clark. Missouri, legislative enactment, has appropriated $25,000 to put a statue of Champ Clark in the Court House Square at Bowling Green...
Nora: " 'Tis your own heart must tell you, Dolores, darling, if you'll but listen as you should, how there's no unhappiness can come to a woman like having the wrong father to her little ones...
...kinds of cranks as well as good people go there [to Hyde Park] to say what they have to say. Cranks form, indeed, one of London's most popular free entertainment. If you do not wish to hear the bray of Communists you may walk away and listen to the more musical and equally profound bleating of the sheep in the park. If a Communist chooses to put in at the Marble Arch talking balderdash he is probably healthier than he would have been. It is intolerable that armed political bands should break the peace...
...said, "or I'll undress," and with feverish speed she began to do so. As the crisis reached its height, a detective assumed his deepest voice: "Listen, lady, we'll wrap you in a blanket and carry...