Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world . . . is tired of harangues on subjects that it knows all about, therefore your pews are empty. . . . When you tell about Jesus and His love, a dying world will listen...
Stanford is honored to have been chosen as a participant in this initial trans-continental hookup which will permit persons all over the country to listen in on this interesting experiment...
Being a sensible woman, however, estimable-capable Widow Caraway will doubtless sit quietly where she belongs and listen politely-when she enters the Chamber at all. For who better than she should know the alarm with which women are viewed by the members of the Greatest Club in the World? She better than most people could feel last week the polite frigidity which permeated the Senate's stag atmosphere at news of her appointment. Her presence will restrain the free-&-easy language of the Democratic cloakroom. It may necessitate the construction of a private lavatory. Some Senators may feel...
...speech in my life. When the Senator came home at night, we didn't talk politics. He came home to rest. He wasn't one of those husbands who called their wives when they made a speech and told them to get their friends to come and listen in the gallery. I had one warning that he was going to speak. That was when he made his Drought speech [Feb. 2, 1931] and then I didn't go and all my friends were angry with me. . . . "Oh, yes - I made a hole in par once...
...central figure. National Broadcasting Co. heard of it, signed up Author Lord. Dubious when he began to deepen the religious flavor of his skit, N. B. C. soon discovered it had a treasure. Until the program was temporarily taken off last month, 3,510,000 people were estimated to listen in every Sunday night on "Sunday at Seth Parker's." Mr. Lord is smooth-faced, suave, lively. As Seth Parker, he puts on a white wig and false beard, drawls genially and devoutly, becomes a skinny, saintly Yankee sage. He delivers a little sermon, pointed up with earthy rural...