Word: listened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conditions, about more pay. It was not very lucrative to work in the Botany Worsted Mills of Passaic, N. J. Some workers got $9 a week. More experienced ones got $15. The strike had been coming for a long time, and when it came they were quite ready to listen to the taut harangs of Strike Leader Albert Weisbord (a graduate of the Harvard Law School) and to the words of Elisabeth Gurley Flynn, a wild Irishwoman who could fire a meeting like a cigaret in shavings. They had been listening to her that afternoon. She had sent them...
...come and live at court. Japanese ambassadors come bringing the Chinese Emperor a mechanical nightingale, and the stupid, stupid courtiers, forgetting their own perfect nightingale, applaud the artificial one, and the real bird flies away. . . . The Emperor is dying and the nightingale sings again. Death stops to listen, steals away, leaves the Emperor, enlightened, happy. Stravinsky, strange, strident, sardonic, owed many of his most striking effects to Serge Soudeikine, who in designing the sets dared to do as much with wild, intoxicating color as Stravinsky did with his horns and strings rhd piano. Marion Talley (TIME...
...throwing his cap at a passing ball, two runners on one base, premature decisions (e. g., a bunt declared foul rolls fair), infield flies, balls batted out of sight. There is a catachism of 51 articles: "Don't be anxious, too quick, tactless, argumentative, vindictive, officious. . . . Remember the spectators. . . . Listen to reason. . . . Smile. ..." The crouching and erect postures are compared. The double-and single umpire systems are explained. Anecdotes abound. Upon the students completing the course with distinction, Professor Evans confers the degree of M. A.? Master Arbiter...
...Sons of Harvard, listen unto me and attend unto the Words of my Mouth; we confessed ye have been imposed upon and greatly injured and peradventure we have done wrong...
There is perhaps no single field of work in the University in which more various and unusual opportunities are offered than in music. Tonight will see the beginning of one of these, when all who care to sing or listen to the Brahms "Requiem" will go to the Browne and Nichols Building of Radcliffe College at 7.30 o'clock. Copies of the work will be 7.30 0'clock and the soprano and baritone provided, and the soprano and baritone solos will be taken by competent singers. The series will be continued on Wednesday evenings until the performance of the whole...