Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Listen," he said, "I'm down now, and everybody in Washington knows it. I'm not worth kicking around...
...line of policy. He has long been pictured as emotionally unbalanced, but probably few men in public life have their emotions so completely under control. The man who in six short years has redrawn the map of Europe, overturned the old standards of political behavior and made the world listen to his every word, can turn his emotions on and off at will...
...trumpet riffs around star number two betray a guy with a perpetual grin, Roy Eldridge. Roy, besides being one of the top swing men in the country, manages to play more fast trumpet than anybody around. To get an idea of why he got the nickname, "Wild Man," listen to "After You've Gone" (Vocalion...
...orator, scarcely a figure calculated to arouse much personal enthusiasm. Herr Himmler's primary function in Naziland has so far been to be neither seen nor heard but to be felt. The housewife who puts quilted covers over her telephone for fear the Gestapo can listen in on household conversations even when the receiver catch is down has felt Herr Himmler's not-too-remote presence. The German who uses prearranged codes in letters to his relatives in or out of the country decidedly feels Policeman Himmler's existence. The discontented merchant, the dissident Party member...
Educators usually go to conventions to listen to educators, but last week 2,000 members of the New York State Vocational Association gathered in Manhattan to listen to businessmen. Their program was entitled: "The Employer Speaks to Vocational Teachers." The convention proved to be unconventional. Most uncommon thing about it was a Mr. Jones, whose views on education, common to many a hardheaded businessman, shocked the 2,000 vocationalists...