Word: ear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maria Orellana, President of the Republic of Guatemala, adjusted his ear to music. With great discernment, he selected the best nine-man Marimba Orchestra in Guatemala City. Last week, it arrived in Washington to play for Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge at the reception of the Pan-American Union in their honor...
...President. Dr. Wendel C. Phillips, aural surgeon of the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, was elected President of the A. M. A. for the year 1926-7. He will take office at the meeting next year at Dallas...
...Edward Asahel Birge besought his Board of Regents to relieve him of the presidency of the University of Wisconsin, where he has been in service for the past half century. The Regents pondered, invited Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard University Law School. Dean Pound accepted, then lent ear to Harvard entreaties and changed his mind (TIME...
...haired Chancellor. Monarchist roars broke out on all sides, Monarchist flags were waved in seeming mockery of the black, red and gold emblem of the Republic fluttering from the Presidential car. At the Chancellery, the Field Marshal was forced to step out on to the balcony to acknowledge an ear-splitting ovation. Thus did Herr von Hindenburg enter Berlin for his Presidential inauguration...
...Jazz Symphony of American Life". "The Moon is a Gong" has as its sub-title. "A Parade with Shouting". "The 'Moon is a Gong" out-processionals "Processional". In his riotous imagination, Dos Passos makes confusion worse confounded. Every device has been accumulated to shock the eye and split the ear. In its revolt from realism it is frankly, blatantly theatrical, and heaps up all the artificial tricks of expressionist drama. As in the Fifth Avenue scene of "The Hairy Ape", so here in the funeral scene masks are used to intensify the impression of stifling conventionality. As in "The Beggar...