Word: listened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later Candidate Borah was in Chicago to try again. With $500 from his own pocket, Edgar John Cook hired Chicago's great Civic Opera House for Senator Borah's Illinois opening. Only 1,000 people turned out to listen, but Orator Borah did far better than at Youngstown. Said...
Into the patio of Palm Beach's No. 1 estate for the No. 1 party of the winter thronged some 400 guests to sip champagne, eat strawberry ice, listen as Banker Edward Townsend Stotesbury celebrated his 87th birthday by rattling a snare drum as he did in the Civil War. A hale, hearty, dapper little man, Host Stotesbury, Philadelphia's richest tycoon, senior partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., was also persuaded to sing his favorite song. The Old Family Toothbrush that Hangs in the Sink...
...seems a pity that a man of Professor Kittredge's learning should be so narrow-minded as to refuse to listen to, or be shown the proofs the Baconians have to offer. Once, I was told, Professor Kittredge advised the members of his English class at Radcliffe not to read any books on the Baconian theory...
...listen: I have saved the sweetest part of my letter to the last. Your ears ought to burn today! One of my countrymen, Professor Pease, speaks about you this afternoon. Are you not glad? Will it not please you, dear Cicero, to hear about yourself: Your letters; your philosophy; your orations--even your private life? Fear not, in this latter matter the professor will be discreet. But how is Publilia? I shall be waiting to meet...
...Lord! Enough of this business; the man be greater than his works; and I be as much charmed by his kindliness, his "god bless my souls", and his complimentary "you knows" as I be fascinated by the adventure of his thoughts. I do listen to him and my heart doth feel that here indeed is nature's spokesman...