Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leon Henderson's words apparently landed on Governor Edison's deaf ear. Next day Governor Edison named his longtime friend and business associate, Arthur Walsh, 47, manager of Governor Edison's successful campaign in 1940. At 19, Arthur Walsh played the violin for Thomas A. Edison, frequently played his instrument alongside Edison recordings to demonstrate their tonal quality. At Thomas Edison's funeral he played the inventor's favorite,I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen. He is now executive vice president of Thomas A. Edison Inc. and a director of six Edison subsidiaries...
Some charter members of Post 591: an 18-year-old sailor wounded by shrapnel (South Pacific); a young private with punctured ear drums (North Africa); a paratrooper who injured his back in a practice jump; an ex-National Guardsman suffering from shock and war neurosis; a 45-year-old World War I veteran who was drafted again for World War II and served in a medical battalion until discharged...
...Little laboratory, just to show it could be done, once made a "silk" purse out of a sow's ear...
...mother of Actress-Author Ilka), an amber-eyed, blue-haired, 66-year-old. An able, experienced judge of style trends, Mrs. Chase started in the circulation department 38 years ago, in no time was writing picture captions. Sample: "Mauve is the prevailing nuance of the hour . . . even to the ear posies of one's carriage horses." In 1914 she became Vogue's editor. She gets to work around 10 a.m., Mondays through Fridays, leaves about 6. An admirer of things transatlantic, she is largely responsible for Vogue's British spellings of such words as "pyjamas" and "colour...
...Dangling your arms between well-sagged knees, woggle your shoulders and touch an ear on the upward movement. Between woggles, droop shoulder...