Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Listen to that," screamed Huey. "Liar Earl Long...
...more than they used to. The Keeley ("Drunkenness Is a Disease") Institute reported that the number of bartenders treated had risen from three in 1940 to 28 last year. Said Director James H. Oughton Jr.: "Perhaps it is . . . the chaotic condition of world politics and economics. A bartender must listen to constant discussion of these topics...
...Drummer Zutty Singleton. In the cult-ridden, vociferous world of hot jazz, Hackett became an overnight sensation. Erudite Manhattan jazzophiles went learnedly ga-ga over Hackett's musical kinship to the late great Bix Beiderbecke. Author Dorothy (Young Man With a Horn) Baker came night after night to listen and finally, to Hackett's considerable embarrassment, to write a moony, swoony tribute to his "dignity" in Vogue...
...Suppose, for instance, that a politician here makes a speech denouncing the United States. For my own purposes I can always get a copy of the speech or listen to it on the radio. But for TIME you would have to be on the scene-to know whether his tie was under his chin or drooping to his waist, whether he gulped water from a pitcher or a jug or a glass, etc. You would have to know whether his wife was on the speaker's stand nodding her head affirmatively, negatively, or not at all because...
...loud howl from radiomen. Everybody seemed to have been expecting it. The new code of the National Association of Broadcasters, radio's own trade organization, is flatly on record, as of July 1, that "any broadcasting designed to 'buy' the radio audience, by requiring it to listen in hope of reward, rather than for quality of entertainment, should be avoided...