Word: ear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taylor's music, like his writing, is distinguished by elegance and refinement, coupled with a good sense of climax and dramatic values. It is sufficiently modernistic to tickle the ear with tricky surprises, cleverly produced as from a convenient bag, without being discordant enough to baffle or antagonize those of conventional tastes. Personally, following (as always) the latest musical fashion, Taylor wears his hair short, dresses well, is an animated conversationalist. Twenty years ago, no one would have taken him for a real musician. Times have changed in St. Cecilia's realm...
...Republican platform for 1924 was something Democrats looked forward to with avidity. Said they, not only to themselves, but aloud in the public ear: "Coolidge and Congress have been at war. If the platform endorses Coolidge, it must repudiate Congress and vice versa?either way it will be meat...
Mastoids. Dr. Samuel J. Kopetzky, New York, told how infection of the mastoid region, behind the ear, following influenza, sore throat, pneumonia or colds, may result in a general infection of the whole body...
...demonstration, by the Western Electric Co., of a method enabling 750 physicians at one time to. listen to the heart beats and lung sounds of a patient. Radio tubes and amplifiers were used and the physicians in the audience, using their own stethoscopes applied to the radio ear phones, heard the sounds exactly as they were being heard by the demonstrator...
...Stanford University, (retiring) President of the American Medical Association and brother of Curtis D. Wilbur (Secretary of the Navy): "To a reporter for The New York World I verified a report that I can put my right hand over my left shoulder under my chin and touch my right ear. Next day the World announced that several people-including two members of its own staff-could do similar tricks with their arms and ears." Pancho Villa, flyweight pugilistic champion of the world: "In Manhattan I was served with papers in a $50,000 suit for alienation of the affections...