Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Copey and Bliss." "Kitty" was Professor George Lyman Kittredge '82, renowned Shakespearean scholar, who died a year ago, while "Bliss" was Professor Bliss Perry, beloved English teacher. Professor Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, and his readings have thrilled thousands. Annually be attracts a packed hall to listen to him as he intones familiar and unfamiliar words from the Bible, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Harvardman Robert Benchley '12, and many more." About each of these the legends are never-ending...
...Kempner believes that some Philadelphia Germans still listen to Nazi shortwave broadcasts, but they "no longer swallow" Goebbels whole. Last week he declared: "They now say: 'We heard a German tell us it was not true...
...sugared with household hints that fans find easy to take. Her fans include the well-heeled and hard-up in almost equal numbers. They also include men. Yelled a bartender recently, when customers switched off Bessie's program: "Don't youse guys want to learn nothing? You listen to Bessie Beatty. She'll teach you something...
...Senators then let him go and went to listen to other sales-tax proposals. One for a sales tax on merchants' gross sales of goods (not services) was offered by the committee's counsel, Colin F. Stam. The other, a proposal for a 10% stamp tax on sales-the Government to pay back the stamp buyers after the war or accept the stamps as income-tax payments-came from Connecticut's John A. Danaher...
...They sensed, too, the fact that the war in North Africa had reached a curious and explosive stage, where each side had everything to lose, and nothing to gain, by waiting for the other to strike. It was this feeling, a kind of intestinal divination, that made men everywhere listen for the guns...