Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hayes thinks his comedy ideas are best expressed in his characterization of "Punchy Callahan"-a hilarious but touching portrait of an ex-pug, as shapeless, scuffed and unwanted as a worn-out boxing glove. Even after three weeks, busy Copacabana waiters still stop, look & listen to Punchy...
...month between any two points to be a scheduled operator. This was just what the big airlines, the "scheduled carriers," had asked the board to do. CAB would also forbid all nonscheduled lines from flying outside the U.S. other than to Canada, Alaska or Mexico. The Board will listen to objections to the new regulations. But most airmen knew that the Board's final actions do not often differ much from its "proposals...
...ridiculous to Vag, something strictly for pudgy, bespectacled graduate students and spinsterish schoolteachers. He though of the season at the beach, lying in the sun all day, long drives on cool summer evenings. And here he was, going back to school. Back to stifling college rooms and trying to listen to long lectures, while outside, green leaves would sway beckoningly. And here was Vag, carrying his bulging bag down Dunster Street, a cigarette danging from his lips, and beginning to perspire...
...going to continue that fight." He spoke lightly of calamity howlers, reminded his audience that Henry Clay, in 1833. had cried that the U.S. was soon to be "an elective monarchy, the worst of all forms of government." He added: "I know you are not going to listen [to those] who tell you that the end of things has come...
Almost every night in the week a handful of Manhattan cops take up their routine posts around Eighth Avenue and 49th Street. While they boredly chomp their gum, inside Madison Square Garden thousands of New Yorkers goggle at circuses and rodeos, listen to politics, yell their heads off at prize fights...