Word: listening
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...racily conversational prose-puncher, a "critic" who makes you stop, look & listen by the amusing mock-violence of her own irrelevant reactions, Mrs. Parker has written, in Laments for the Living, some first-rate dialogs. But when her climate curdles her to rhyme, her curtness often turns to slightly acidulous whey. Poetess Parker's ideas can usually be contained in a quatrain though she often lets them wander farther. Death and Taxes has a few neat quatrains...
...whither Sir Richard went personally to seek a loan last week, he was asked again about selling or leasing Labrador. ''Have you any offers to make?" he smilingly queried correspondents. "Has Quebec, or Canada, or the United States anything to suggest? We'll be willing to listen...
Oldest Mayor Gray also had something to say. He bridled when Mrs. Gray, ardent W. C. T. U. supporter, told newshawks: "Liquor is wicked in itself, and the source of most of the world's wickedness." Said her husband: "Oh, don't listen to her. She's not just a Dry, she's a Prohibition crank. Prohibition will never work, in my opinion." He is proud that little Pasco has not had a murder in 30 years...
...Some young men approach the shops and listen. When they see the tej nicely presented in a row in decanters they say: 'Let us buy a piaster's worth and taste...
Granddaughter of the late Senator H., daughter of Congressman William B., niece of incumbent Senator John H., Tallulah Bankhead inherited from her family a pungent rhetorical wit and an inclination to have people listen to her. After a short period of training at various convents, she went on the stage in Manhattan. Her reputation was just beginning to dawn when she left for England. She liked England and there was less competition there. Before long she was, to Londoners, the greatest U. S. actress. Bobbies had to give her an escort nightly from the stage door to her car. Because...