Word: listened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois. "You're just salving your own consciences here this morning," roared he. "I thoroughly disagree with all the self-admiration that has been expressed here. . . . We haven't got even enough members of Congress to force a roll call. And still we listen to rhetorical pap . . . like 'the American way of life...
...Archbishop of Canterbury has his way, the stutter will be called a halt. Broadcast he: "When his people listen to the King they will note an occasional momentary hesitation in his speech. ... It need not cause any sort of embarrassment, for it causes none to him who speaks...
...fish?" asked a newshawk. Replied the Governor: "I've got a lot more chance than I had in the last campaign." Bedded in a Denver hospital, Oregon's eloquent Senator Frederick ("Three Long Years") Steiwer lamented the loss of "a good audience" of Senate Republicans to listen to him tell about his gall stone operation. Moaned he: "Imagine starting out, 'Now, when I had my operation,' and having only 15 or 20 around to hear!" Golfing and fishing at Miami, Fla. were onetime Democratic Presidential Nominee James Middleton Cox, Massachusetts' Democratic Governor James Michael Curley...
...only after he has leisurely considered the explanatory notes on the program that he begins to wonder if he should have enjoyed the play in spite of himself. There is an elucidator in the performance, but he's such a fop that one is inclined not to listen to him, and his remarks are not very pertinent, anyway...
Anyone who reads the first page of "Listen for a Lonesome Drum" will want to read the whole of it. But it has spoiled for a long time the chances of another author writing a successful book on old York State. Mr. Carmer should have confined himself to a more limited space or done more thorough and more accurate work. As it is, he passes a good many localities rich with the treasure of romance; he disposes of the great Adirondacks with nothing more than an account of some winter lumbering activities, points out that cock-fighting can still...