Word: listener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the convention proper began, Teamster Czar Beck acted less like a union big shot than a man taking a rest cure at some stodgy, back-country hot springs. He made no speeches at all; when he sat down to listen to convention oratory, he did so with the resigned air of a man lowering himself into a mud bath for the good of his soul and his sweat glands...
...Faculty meetings [at Harvard] are a thing of the past. Two or three times a year a group get together to listen to instructions rather than to discuss measures . . . Many of the older men who were once outspoken liberals have withdrawn into their shells . . . Some have become bitter. Many have left or have been squeezed out. Some have had their appropriations from the university treasurer . . . reduced...
...shrewd skipper, who made up in ingenuity what his boat lacked in speed, would order his excellent band to play loudly when a rival drew alongside. All the passengers on the other boat would rush to the near side to listen, heeling their own vessel over until its other paddle wheel flailed helplessly half out of water...
...hailed a taxi. "The radio building," he ordered the driver. "Sorry, m'sieur," said the cabby, "I haven't the time to drive you. Premier Spaak speaks on the radio tonight, in a few minutes in fact, and like a loyal Socialist I'm going to listen." Glowing with pleasure at the words, Belgium's Premier nevertheless had to get to the broadcast. Still concealing his identity, he waved a banknote at the reluctant driver. "Ah," said the latter, "step in, step in. After all, that villain Spaak has been repeating himself for 25 years...
...curtain is always up. No longer a great beauty, and overweight for her 5 ft. 3, she is still magnetic. She is almost never silent or still. Says Actor John Emery, her ex-husband: "She is the only woman I ever knew who could carry on a conversation, listen to the radio, read a book and do her hair at the same time...