Word: listenerers
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radio listener lends his ear to a loudmouthed, platitudinous, corn-cackling character who calls himself Senator Claghorn. The "Senator" is a broad burlesque of the worst in Southern statesmen. On the air for less than three months, he is already being mimicked by children at school, businessmen at luncheon clubs...
The Army used what it called "Sferic" - Static Direction Finder - a device developed in Florida and combat-tested in the storm-ridden Pacific theater. Sferic employs a radar-like directional antenna (two mutually perpendicular receiving loops) and cathode-ray tube. Certain types of storms are accompanied by severe electrical disturbances...
It is customary to begin a review of a Budapest Quartet concert by launching into effusive praise of what has rightly been called the greatest string quartet of the twentieth century. A listener can only marvel at the Quartet's richness and clear, full tones, to say nothing of its...
Mistinguett, ancient (seventyish) Parisian music-hall favorite whose shapely legs have outlasted two World Wars, saw Marlene Dietrich perform in Paris, cooed to a lobby listener: "Marlene was marvelous, but, chérie, you know, she's really getting very old."
When first released, the starving children wanted to talk more than they wanted to eat; they seemed to need a sympathetic listener more than food. Talking steadily, they followed workers around, telling their stories. Those who had been in many different camps wanted to describe the differences. Two Polish boys...