Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mountain, but their many attacks upon and bombardments of the peak are futile. Without its capture they are powerless to advance. In desperation they undertake to bore under the peak to dynamite it. The defending Austrians learn of the Italian strategy but dare not relinquish their position. They listen to the sound of the drilling beneath them, not knowing when they will be blown to bits. Florian (Luis Trenker) is an Austrian soldier, a native of the village below, and deeply in love with the wife from whose arms war has torn...
After Uncle Wes dies of a knife-wound, complicated by Big Pa's conjuring, Cricket grows more & more restless. Though she loves Blue, she will not listen to his marriage proposals: she wants to go off to the big city, where Man Jay had gone before. When a rich stranger appears in the neighborhood and steals the bootleg trade away from Uncle Kelly, Cricket takes up with him. On the day set for their wedding the groom does not appear. Uncle Kelly has settled him. But the bride, all dressed for a wedding, must have a groom. Blue snatches...
...seemed like a long anticlimax to the Napoleonic wars. A later generation, drawing a similar bitterness from a world in greater ruin, can find its mood already mirrored in the pages of his confessions and in his melancholy poems. The Vagabond will journey to Emerson 211 this morning and listen to a more critical estimate of Alfred de Musset from Professor Morize...
Starting its spring season, the Liberal Club will gather Wednesday afternoon at 1.45 o'clock in the Common Room of Lowell House to listen to three speakers who will present the cause of the National Committee to Aid Striking Miners Fighting Starvation...
...more innocent of knowledge than the Northerner of corresponding position," but believes in his "unspoiled and eager teachableness." An eloquent testimonial of the kind of education which Piedmont gives is provided in Professor Phillips' account of weekends in his mountain cabin where students help him bake corn pone and listen to passages from Walt Whitman...