Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Williams, Steelman Eugene Grace. Copperman Louis Shattuck Gates and many and many another manager of major corporations. Even the rank & file clustered at the common tables will read like a Directory of Directors. And through the rich blue haze of New Waldorf cigars, the nation's manufacturers will listen to the first woman ever asked to address them-Columnist Dorothy Thompson, Novelist Lewis' wife...
...school itself for political maturity and the national leadership which it felt its members must rightly and inevitably inherit. Lengthening their convention from the usual two days to include a third called "Labor Day," the manufacturers turned many an unfamiliar stone in their search for enlightenment. They will listen to Leo Wolman on the labor outlook; General Hugh Johnson on "Wages & Hours Legislation;" Colgate University's President George Barton Cutten on "Hiatus in Social Re-sponsibility;" M. I. T.'s President Karl Taylor Compton and Caltec's Robert Andrews Millikan on Science & Industry. For national and international...
...woman, once false, be true in love? The answer is no more known today than in the Fourteenth Century. But the Vagabond is willing to listen to reason, and this morning he will go to Emerson A at 9.00 o'clock to hear Fred N. Robinson, Gurney Professor of English Literature, read from and talk about the Troilus and Criscyde...
Whatever the rating he gives him, there can be no doubt that his favorite musician is Jean Sibelius. He owns three radios and never misses a broadcast of his own compositions, tuning in inaccurately and listening intently to the resultant howling mixture of music and static. "You must be a good, very good musician to listen to radio," he says, "to get details...
...village of Bilignin after she had become a success; the third tells of the U. S. journey. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas brought old literary-artistic quarrels to a head. Miss Stein began reading the manuscript to Artist Pablo Picasso and his wife: "I was reading he was listening and his eyes were wide open and then suddenly his wife Olga Picasso got up and said she would not listen she would go away she said. What's the matter, we said, I do not know that woman she said and left. Pablo said go on reading...