Word: listened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being in his "raptus." He says himself, "No one can love nature more than I". His works, in consequence, have the elemental force and variety of natural phenomena. With what dramatic power does he at times take us in his arms, hurl us down, and stamp upon us--"Listen to me, base mortal, or perish." And what a saving grace is his gift of humor, just as important in art as in daily life. Beethoven never tears a passion to tatters, never protests too much, can be serious and truly impressive without becoming solemn or pontificial. Before Beethoven, music...
Alert magazine readers could have played a neat joke on friends and family last week. "Go over there and shut your eyes," they could have said, "and listen while I read you something. Listen carefully because you'll have to answer a question when I finish...
...Listen again, carefully now. Try to think about this...
...small revolver between her cupped hands which she extended toward Il Duce, as though in adoring supplication. Taking careful, point-blank aim she pulled the trigger; but at that same instant a band struck up the Fascist hymn "Giovinezza," and Signor Mussolini threw back his head proudly to listen. The bullet sped, but not into his brain. He had thrown back his head far enough so that the leaden slug only clipped an atom of flesh from the tip of his nose...
...works of the month or the day. As contemporary criticism is dangerous and liable to error, so it is also fascinating and extremely provocative of dispute. The Vagabond is very anxious to hear what Professor Murdock has to say of the favorites of his childhood--he expects to listen and to disagree...