Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tried to ignore the clamoring, rioting unemployed but had to listen to their parliamentary champion, "Grandpa" George Lansbury, Leader of the Labor Party, who shouted, "I demand that the damnable 'means test'* be abolished and every man given a chance of decent existence...
...wife was on her way from Brentwood to stop the hunt, that a game warden had abducted his 14-year-old son Charles. "The boy and I are going out in the country a piece," said the warden. "By the time we're back maybe Wright will listen to reason...
Speed: Now listen, chief, you can't fool with football. It's the only serious thing left any more...
...dingy frame building, which "looks like an orphan asylum," according to Japanese correspondents. To this Imperial orphanage went the peers of Japan last week, some in grey silk kimonos, more in frock coats and high button shoes, to sit on stiff benches behind wooden desks and listen to a speech actually addressed to the entire world: an explanation by Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida of his country's foreign policy. Most cautiously, most meticulously was the speech prepared...
...Downing St. to learn that so far as the British Government was concerned the problem of Indian proportional representation was solved in the elaborate bill which Premier MacDonald had just drawn up. If Indian communities could agree among themselves to specific objections to this solution, Britain would listen to them, but the Government would waste no more time with the plaints of individual minorities. Mr. MacDonald added...