Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these years his daughter had to listen to almost continuous public attacks on the way her father made his money, his love of display, his "secret government" of the U. S. It gave her a lifelong horror of publicity and all forms of ostentation. In 1901 Abby Aldrich married a young man who thought the same way about great wealth for the same reasons. His name was John D. Rockefeller...
...began his double life: Five days a week he is Edward B. Dolbey, working in his father's chemical shop. Saturdays and Sundays he is Andrew Garth, the whistler, who lists himself as such in the Philadelphia telephone directory, keeps his own studio, entertains friends who listen to his ambitions to found a whistling orchestra, produce his own opera already part written. In it the hero is a whistler...
Many conservatives and many radicals have long been annoyed by Upton Sinclair. One of the things that annoys both of them (for different reasons) is that he says he believes in God. Last week, in a little (140 page) book he told anyone who cared to listen all about the "practical religion" he has created to meet his own everyday needs. "It is book number 54 in my list; and that is a long time to have let God wait." Unsympathetic readers closed No. 54 with the feeling that Author Sinclair had once more had his say but that...
...vein of light raillery, Molotov dismissed Uruguay's breaking off of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and charges that Moscow has been actively fomenting revolution in South America (TIME, Jan. 6). Molotov drew laughter by exclaiming, "To listen to the Uruguayans, one would think we had nothing else to do but interfere in other people's affairs...
...Promise Me and Brown October Ale kept him in the highest bracket of the American Society of Composers, Authors " Publishers until his death. Other Smith productions: Victor Herbert's The Fortune Tetter, The Serenade, The Idol's Eye, Irving Berlin's Watch Your Step, Stop! Look! Listen!, Franz Lehar's Land of Smiles...