Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen that no accommodation for public or press should be available. Everything that recalled any liberal period since the Cortes of Cádiz in 1812 was gone as the Procuradores (literally: procurers) of Spain's new Cortes assembled last week to be sworn in and listen to Caudillo Francisco Franco...
...British Imperialism. . . . He did not like Socialism-I suppose because sailors were not Socialists in his time." In foreign politics, "he had one horror-of Russia; and no definite idea, unless good wishes for the independence of Poland." He shared Retinger's "myopia to music," and liked to listen to stories of personal adventure, though he rarely spoke...
Tabuteau's technique is matched by his musicianship. He can turn a melodic phrase with a lyric grace matched by few virtuosos of any instrument. Famous pianists and violinists who play with the Philadelphia Orchestra listen reverently to the accent of his Beethoven or Brahms. Other oboists* listen to Philadelphia recordings and performances just to study Tabuteau...
...White House. The piano was a beautiful thing-a Steinway concert grand with gilded eagle legs. He could bang it just as hard as he liked, play anything on it from Brahms, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to When You and I Were Young, Maggie. If he wanted Mrs. Roosevelt to listen, he had only...
...when he was ready, to drop in for practice at the White House. Last week Hardie Robbins, now a regular caller, was flexing his hands at the gilded Steinway and looking forward to the time when they would once again be practiced enough so that Mrs. Roosevelt might listen...