Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vultee Vengeance. In Fort Worth, Hobson M. Mack, butcher, charged that Silas H. Strother, Vultee aircraft worker, bit off part of his ear in an argument over the price of pig's knuckles...
Henry Cowell: Tales of Our Countryside (All-American Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting, with Composer Cowell at the piano; Columbia; 4 sides). Henry ("Tone Clusters") Cowell has been noted chiefly as a composer-pianist who plays his ear-wrenching works partly with his fists and elbows. This composition is in a surprising, melodious vein that sounds somewhat like Sibelius...
After the carpetbag era, the family moved to Manhattan. Young Bernie went to City College, acquired a Phi Beta Kappa key, a reputation as an amateur boxer and ballplayer, and a deaf left ear as the result of a blow with a baseball bat. That deaf ear kept him out of West Point, his first choice for a career; and it has also enabled him, at crucial times, to hear only the questions he cares to answer...
...English Channel. Not even when his planes were winning Schneider Trophies (they won four) did England's financiers realize his full value. Not even after his eye-opening visit to Germany in 1935 and his meeting with the brilliant Willy Messerschmitt would the British Government lend him its ear. It was an "eccentric" individualist, Lady Houston, who finally put ?100,000 behind Mitchell's fantastic notion that England desperately needed a plane "faster than anything on earth, tougher than any other fighter, and able to turn on a sixpence...
...dining room . . . the summerhouse with the well in it ... the drooping cut-leaf maple. It was all just as I remembered it. Nothing was changed. ... In the library, a light flashed on. ... I knew my mother was standing at the top of the stairs in her kitten's-ear broadcloth with the long train, the diamond butterfly from Tiffany's sparkling at the black-velvet ribbon around her throat. . . . But I couldn't see her for the mist in my eyes...