Word: ear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professional ability in the U. S. diplomatic service won, last week, another victory: the President decided to appoint John Van Antwerp MacMurray to be Minister to China.* Chinese bands, long silent, are beginning to play the tunes of nationalism; the new minister must have a delicate ear, must be a sympathetic critic. Two tunes, in particular, are rising to a crescendo of protest against "foreign domination...
Sound waves, to which the ear is sensitive, do not belong in the spectrum of ether vibrations. They are disturbances among the parti- cles of the air. In a vacuum, there can be no sound...
...would seem that only blue stocking prejudice could turn a deaf ear to the wonderful possibilities of such a step. That same blue stocking prejudice has been responsible for whatever has been bad in the history of the theatre. The bigoted attitude which has looked upon a stage career as the shortest route to the everlasting bonfire has foatered immorality and low standards...
...reason: the carnivora are gone. There are no wild animal acts. No sharply smiling lady makes small boys lose their peanuts when she puts her golden head in the lion's mouth; no clown breathes the naughty story he will not tell the crowd into the leopard's sullen ear, most earnestly hoping that the creature will not take offense. The baleful tigers, too, are gone. Many marveled at this. "Who," they asked, "has at last discerned that the interest attending the feats of the clown and the lady rests on the expectation, nay, the hope, that they will...
...gentlemen ? Messrs. Burton, Goulder, Smith, Hadden?were among the older men at the Cleveland Bar when he came there in 1893, he said. He called upon them each in turn and they rose to reply. The well-fed lawyers of Cleveland, fathers of the law, bent forward, giving ear to the forefathers of their association...