Word: listen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge began by maintaining a sphinxlike silence as far as the public was concerned. To the Senators, Congressmen and others who conferred with him he seemed more inclined to listen than to speak...
...reported as saying that a great fortune awaited anyone who would devise a means of levying toll for broadcasting service. This seems impossible. You send out into the spreading atmosphere a program of music and talk in the form of wireless waves. Anyone who has a radio set may listen to this program, without any charge or without the possibility of another's preventing him. The phonograph company sells you a machine and then sells you records. The radio company sells you a set and then gives you free broadcast service...
...radio companies have sold these numberless sets with the implication that broadcasting would be a permanent thing. Of what use is a listening-in machine, if there is little or nothing to listen...
...Paris Opera the other night. Ganna Walska appeared on the stage of that old and famous opera house in the extremely difficult role of Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto. The historical institution, scene of so many great operatic triumphs, was crowded with aristocrats who wished to listen to what was certain to be a most interesting performance...
Women who force the President to listen to riddles...