Word: listen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last long. Governor Towner chose a Cabinet composed principally, if not entirely, of Unionists. At once the Republicans began to storm as the Unionists had stormed previously. When Secretary Weeks went to the island recently he was forced to listen to three hours of wrangling among the local politicians before he could speak. No protesting delegations have yet arrived in Washington, but the Administration anticipates their coming...
...authorities now look forward to a better season. Following the psychology of roulette it seems certain that many hundreds of thousands of people will assemble in the famous salons to listen to the monotonous chant of the croupiers: "Messieurs, faites vos jeux." "Les jeux sont faits." "Rien ne va plus." "Zero!" Then will follow the usual clatter of "blancs, rouges et plaques" accompanied by the suppressed groans of the gamblers, except, of course, the tittering individual in the corner who had five francs on zero...
...interpretations. He went on tour through Russia and appeared before huge audiences. Musicians warned the parents not to play him to ruin, that the prodigy should be taken away from music and given a commonplace boy's life until he had matured. The parents would not listen. They were intoxicated by the prosperity and glory that their son brought them. In a year the boy's talent had been worked to collapse. His interpretations became the flattest routine work. Then he fell ill and died. A contrasting case is that of Josef Hoffman, who, beginning as a nine...
...Senior class will march around the Yard and will listen to an address by President Lowell. Several selections will be sung by the Glee Club, after which refreshments will be served and moving pictures will be shown on the walls of University Hall...
...pension list of the most rapacious trust in the country. I asked him to answer collect, but he didn't answer at all. I shall go to Washington soon, and then I shall have much to say about Taft and to his face if he will listen. Taft has been eating at the public crib since he was a boy in knickerbockers and it's time he took a vacation...