Word: listenin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...copies. One volume, however, called Tony's Scrap Book had sold 225,000 copies, was still going fairly strong last month when Publishers Reilly & Lee issued Tony's Scrap Book No. 2. These, along with another published last November with the title 'R' You Listenin'?, are the product of Anthony ("Tony") Wons, a radio performer who has broken all records of Columbia Broadcasting System for sustained fan mail (2,000 letters a week). Self-styled a "peptomist," Wons is regarded by a shuddering minority as the most offensive broadcaster on the air. To his enormous...
...Both San Francisco and Los Angeles (also Portland, Ore.) are full-page advertisers in your periodical, and I believe I am correct in assuming that you also have countless readers and subscribers out on this Pacific slope; and yet it seems that we are not deemed worthy of a listenin on your advertised broadcast. I for one would be willing to forego Amos & Andy or any other popular radio entertainment, to listen to "The March of Time" in event of the programs clashing...
...Martinisms: "We often wonder if anybuddy ever bought new shoe strings before th' ole ones busted? . . . Wouldn't this be a dandy world if we could all stand discouragement like a reformer? . . 'I heard a shot and a scream in the hall but wuz jest listenin' in on Amos & Andy and thought no more of it,' testified Mrs. Tilford Moots' brother, questioned in regard to the murder of his wife." Born into a newspaper family (his brother and sister, Horace K. and Ada A. Hubbard, publish the Examiner, Bellefontaine, Ohio), Kin Hubbard spent...