Word: listener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enthusiasm matched the numbers. In San Francisco, 2,500 stood in the streets outside the packed Opera House to listen to the sound trucks. When University of California officials refused to let Wallace speak in any university building, 10,000 students left their classes to hear him talk from a Berkeley curbstone near the campus gates. In Chicago his audience chanted: "We want Wallace! Wallace in '48!" In Los Angeles he was introduced, to wild applause...
...true that the hard core of Wallace's listeners consisted largely of the vociferous intellectual and professional Left. But around it were clustered thousands of ordinary, bewildered citizens. Some of them sought to hear in Wallace's alternately flat and strident voice the bland tones of Franklin Roosevelt, to recover, in Wallace's fumbling gestures, the touch of a vanished hand. Most of them were vaguely troubled about such timely problems as the Bomb, World War III, Russia, economic collapse. All were groping for answers and willing to listen to anybody who could offer one and Henry...
This morning, class members will take time out from their merrymaking long enough to listen to various lecture symposium speakers discuss subjects ranging from "the Theatre in Paris" to "The Place of Navi Aircraft in National Defense." Following the ball game, Class members will gather at the Harvard Club of Boston at 6:30 o'clock for the Men's Class Dinner. Wives and offspring will have supper at the Hotel Somerset, where they will be joined by their husbands at 10 o'clock for an evening of dancing...
...impossible. But the CRIMSON, wise far beyond its knowing said "we may not necessarily agree . . . that Germany is preparing for a war of revenge . . . but when an export (General Taufflieb of the French Army) warns us that war is coming, it is undoubtedly the part of wisdom to listen...
...Brazilian colonel, they withdrew with five top advisers for 2¼ hours' talk. Reporters who peeked around a curtain saw a cozy semicircle. Perón dominated the talk. Dutra, quiet by nature, weary and weighed down with Communist troubles at home (TIME, May 26), did little but listen. Besides, he still had to go 75 miles to Quarahy, for a second border meeting the next day with Uruguay's President Tomás Berreta...