Word: listened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enjoy the TIME review as much as anything I listen to these days and I think it is the most wonderful magazine published for busy people; I read it every week; and subjects are handled so entertainingly, and the review just helps us hold what we have read. But is it necessary to be accompanied by music ? That is very annoying when one is trying to hear what you are saying. We would be glad to do without...
...Secretary Wilbur cries, "We find peace and prosperity at home, but abroad we find new peril, declaring spiritual warfare and ready to declare material warfare on the people of this nation. Where our children are willing to listen, they are taught the ways of the Third International. We find its hand clutching at the heart of our sister republic in the South. We find it stirring up trouble in Asia, in China, in Nicaragua. . . . In the face of this insidious propaganda within our own territory and in other nations it be hooves us to be vigilant...
...people insist on my having hobbies, I shall reiterate two. I like to put on long, black silk trousers and listen to my husband play the violin. He does it beautifully. Then I like to sit in the gallery and listen to debates in Congress, particularly in the Senate. Some say that I could be elected Senator from Ohio, if I said the word. However, I am too busy now caring for Paulina to think of stump speaking...
...with Editor Geoffrey Dawson of the London Times. Mayor Walker of New York said he talked to Lord Mayor Sir Rowland Blades of London. There was little enough secrecy about the service, at that According to the London Daily Mail clever radio engineers, amateur and professional, were able to listen in upon the talks as far away as South Africa. Complete privacy is being striven for by engineers. . . . Mr. Gifford's conversation with Sir Evelyn began at 8:40 a. m. (1:40 p. m. London time), only slightly delayed and never interrupted by static. Then there...
...real article?starving after 40 and 50 years of incessant toil, squeezed dry and cast aside, no good for anything but this sideshow. Case 56 is pretty: 'chuckle-voiced, hat-doffing Charlie the Iceman.' Now 'Charlie's on the shelf. Old and sick and done for. And forgotten.' Listen to Gene Tunney himself on the superb specimen in case 46: Mr. and Mrs. Pat Malloy, 74 years old, worked all their lives, k.o.'d by a taxicab going home from work. Now 'the grey end. . . . They are slaves of a social system. . . . Nothing they did or neglected...