Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perhaps for the astute Vagabond reader this is all stale news, or perhaps he has broken his glasses and would prefer just to listen. If such is the case, there follows a list of subjects which promise to repay even the trouble of getting up early on Saturday morning...
...make quite a comfortable living out of the Harvard boys few of whom know good liquor from bad and don't care a great deal what they get so long as it inspires them to deep and shallow thinking. The cop get his man. How did he get him? Listen to the shameful story. He telephoned to the bootlegger, representing himself to be a Harvard student and ordered two quarts of whiskey and two quarts of gin, to be delivered at one of the college dormitories. The bootlegger delivered the goods in person to the cop in person...
...have told me within a few weeks that organizations which they had addressed regularly for a series of years on "The Sacred Duties of the Journalistic Profession", and kindred topics, have failed to apply for dates this season and, on being questioned explained that they had made arrangements to listen to certain Harvard professors, one of whom had a harp accompanist...
...Listen to that?...
Providence. Rhode Island's Attorney-General Oscar Heltzen worked to establish manslaughter charges against the crew of the C. G. 290. When three U. S. Treasury agents tried to enter his inquiry, he ordered them out. declaring: "This is a State affair. You're coming here to listen in and since you won't cooperate, I don't intend to let you in for that purpose...