Word: listener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listen, thinking move and more of how big and tough they are at Dartmouth, and remembering stories of how they paint Harvard people green for being spies...
...Colonel Sweats. The Reds seemed to listen at first with only half an ear. Said Mr. Lasky...
...bedside, one learns to suffer fools gladly, to disagree and not be disagreeable, to listen to most preposterous nonsense, to act as a confidential family lawyer, and to act as a priest hearing confession...
Died. Samuel Hoffenstein, 57, master writer of satiric light verse (Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A wry-writing favorite of Manhattan's wry-minded literary set in the late '20s, Hoffenstein (who had written, I'd rather listen to a flute in Gotham, than a band in Butte) disappeared into Hollywood as a scenario writer, later explained: "In the movies we writers work our brains to the bone, and what do we get for it? A lousy fortune...
...Disney movie that mixes cartoons and live actors. The master of ceremonies is Jiminy Cricket (voice by Cliff Edwards), a faintly oppressive optimist who tries to sell the audience on the debatable idea that in these troubled days the best thing one can do is laugh at cartoons and listen to Dinah Shore. As it turns out, one could do a lot worse...