Word: listened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to say a few things. And I am. going to say them because Senator William M. Butler is here to listen...
...anyone at Washington was overworked last week, it was the ex-Professor of Agronomy who recently came from Kansas to be Secretary of Agriculture. Mr. Jardine, in addition to routine work and a reorganization of his Department, was obliged to listen to a debate between the U. S. Government and two meat-packing houses...
...objection is not to the business school but to the proportion. This is a strenuous age, an age of science, and business schools are necessary. But all the more must we have our schools of the drama. Humanity cannot listen to the steam whistle continuously...
...Nothing is so easy in this life as to spatter mud or cavil. There has been a good deal of loose talk on the subject of the Board of Overseers and one constantly has to listen, often with weariness, to counsel of perfection when the annual printed list of suggestions appears, But let me ask again--would it be easy to improve on the list of men now in office? To be sure, it might be preferable--in the sense that they would be able to give more time to the duries if more mute inglorious Miltons were chosen instead...
Facing the microphone last week, her ample form clad in costly fabrics and bedecked with jewels, she sang most appropriately like a nightingale while a vast mass of British, overestimated at 10,000,000, postponed their bedtime story to listen to the sob-strains of The Last Rose of Summer...