Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Copies of this were snapped up by spite-loving socialites who got for their money advice on acquiring a honeyish Baltimore drawl and the aptitude to "listen and ask questions hesitatingly, girlishly, charmingly." Then: "Languidly take it easy, saving up strength for the 'concentration moments' when the man is around...
...hankering for a coup d'etat against the French Republic; must enforce Premier Laval's emergency decrees, especially those forcing down food prices, with greater vigor; and must not play politics with local disaffected groups. True Frenchmen and therefore argumentative, some 30 prefects next made the Premier listen to their views on how France should be run, each speaking out with vigor before the assembly about special conditions in his department...
...what the President is going to do about it was considered so grave that Ambassador William Christian Bullitt, who had planned to be away from Moscow during the Congress of the Comintern, canceled arrangements to visit Odessa with his 11-year-old daughter Anne, remained at his post to listen and report to Washington...
Last week in Laporte, Ind. Ralph R. Upton, Seattle schoolteacher who in 1912 invented the railroad crossing slogan: "Stop-Look-Listen!" crashed his automobile into a truck, killed himself & wife...
...year, married quietly and happily, did a little gambling in mining claims on the side. Inspired by the reckless career of F. Augustus Heinze, who was matching wits with Butte copper kings at the age of 21, Thompson traveled East to peddle his claims. Wall Street would not listen, State Street was almost as inhospitable, and he was nearly at the end of his resources when he managed to get an option on the $250,000 Shannon Mine, in Clifton, Ariz, for $500 cash. He borrowed a last $5,000 to hire a private car and take a party...