Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...December seventeenth Dunster House will gather in a panelled dining room for a banquet and light roistering. On the same evening the students of Lowell will climb up to a tower and listen in arm chairs to a program of serious music. Both Houses are remembering Christmas. One thousand, nine hundred and thirty years ago Wise Men traveled miles to find a stable and to celebrate the same occasion...
...first day's sessions was a banquet at which President Hoover spoke (see p. 15). Usually the President leaves after making an address. President Hoover, however, heard that the next speaker was to be David Lawrence, politically wise publisher of the United States Daily. He stayed to listen to Mr. Lawrence, who reassured one & all that the alleged spirit of co-operation between the two parties in Congress (see p. 16) was real, not simulated...
...received there two years ago as a White House candidate. In the Arena 12,000 excited men and women yelled and screamed a five-minute welcome to him. His speech was another running fusillade of political criticism, with the speaker taking aim as of old with his phrases "Listen to this. . . . Well, what happened? . . . That's history now. . . . Here's the record. . . . Here's a warm one. . . ." President Hoover was his main target. The house roared with joy when he asked: "Where are all those chickens that were to be in every pot? What became...
...Commissar of Public Welfare. Upon her was palmed the lie that Russian women had been "nationalized," that she had issued the decree. "Frequently at that time," Comrade Kollontay has said, "I was obliged to leap out of tramway cars when people [Russians] recognized me. I was often forced to listen to the most unbelievable calumnies, the grossest insults...
...desk, drawl out his political discouragement at men and affairs. Driving his Willys-Knight motorcar is a diversion. Not interested in Society or socialite sport he goes to bed regularly at 10 p.m., sees his principal friends-Senators Borah, Johnson, Brookhart, LaFollette-mostly at the Capitol. He likes to listen to radio reports of baseball games, to smoke numerous cigars...