Word: listened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Accordingly, President Doumergue called upon M. Herriot to lick his dog and its tail into shape and form a cabinet. For the third time last week the tail, wagged by M. Blum, wagged on. He would listen to nothing but supremacy for his Unified Socialists. Thus faced with flat insubordination in the cartel, M. Herriot grew furious. After informing President Doumergue that he could not form a cabinet, he rushed to a caucus of his still loyal adherents and had a motion passed approving his refusal to form a cabinet on Blum's terms. This action was widely interpreted...
...hours after the opening meeting, the delegates will meet again as a body at 11 o'clock to listen to a talk by Professor Hudson. His subject has been announced as "Achievements of International Organization to Date...
...essay "Boston Twilight" he buries Boston beneath rather violent verbiage. Her stage is, to quote the critic. "A paradise of leg shows"; her literature "as dead at the Hittite empire," her press, "the garbage can of American journalism." Indeed, to read Mr. Angoff's essay is to listen for long pages to a booming, often banal barrage of rather heavy wit. He buries Boston and he does so with a bang...
...altogether practical use has been found for the radio. Science has discovered, according to a report, that the best way to learn facts is to listen to a statement of them while one is asleep. It is given as proof that a Terre Haute mechanic with only the most rudimentary education has, by clamping radio phones to his ears, learned the binomial theorem, select passages from American history, some irregular French verbs, and yards upon yards of poetry all while he was fast asleep...
...drop in at Appleton Chapel on any Sunday morning when Dean Brown of Yale, or Harry Emerson Fosdick is going to preach you will find it crowded with students, every seat taken and throngs of boys standing up to listen. The boys are there because they want to be, for there is no compulsion in the matter of attendance...