Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dress well the men had only to listen to Hollywood's Adolphe Menjou, fashion plate since the days of the silent cinema. He offered instructions. Among them: let the jacket sleeves be narrow, and the shirt cuff showing; never wear a striped shirt with a striped suit; wear suspenders instead of a belt; let the knot of the tie be loose instead of tight; let the trousers break just over the instep; stay away from jewelry. "The well-dressed man," certified the famously high-styled actor, "is never conspicuous...
...will listen I answer: It is the mission of the Church to bring the light of God into man's life, to teach God's love, to serve and to save mankind; and today-in this age of demoralization and brutalization-the mission of the Church is exactly the same as it was two thousand years ago and ever shall be. To help bring peace . . . but to mankind...
...year-old Cambridge man, onetime book publisher and architect, was a wartime colonel, now works in Chicago for the British Information Service. His tough assignment: to explain Britain to a Midwest whose loudest citizen-Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Anglophobic Chicago Tribune-doesn't want to listen. Miller was offered the new job not on the strength of his only published writing, a book of Clerihews,* but because he is a friendly fellow with a considerable awareness of Anglo-American viewpoints and a wide acquaintance in Washington. He will have to live a long time, he figures, before...
...baby; he is probably the most difficult of U.S. composers. His 12-year-old violin concerto bogged down all but one of the many violinists who tackled it. His orchestral works are as elaborately scored as those of Hector Berlioz, but, unlike Berlioz, Sessions seldom repeats themes to give listeners something to cling to. The new symphony's unmuted brasses were as noisy as Shostakovich's, and some passages reminded hearers of the atonalist music of Hindemith and Schonberg. Sessions, however, believes that he is closer to Hungary's late, great Bela Bartok. And he hates...
...Methodists like sermons; they like them biblical and they like them preached, not read. Wrote an Oklahoma county clerk: "Most preachers . . . that I listen to talk too much about what they have done, or make too many personal references, follow notes too closely, giving the Average thinking layman the impression of not enough time spent praying over the message to be delivered to hungry people...