Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard pickets are coming from most of the College's politically minded organizations, but they will be unofficial delegates, assembled tonight under the aegis of Fight for Freedom. They will parade "in a peaceful manner feeling that that is a good way of expressing ear position to what the America First Committee stands...
...Ears. In Columbus, Ohio, a man reported to police that a stranger in a grill room had bitten off a piece of his ear. In Indianapolis, hospital physicians relieved ten-year-old James Hurt's earache by removing a wad of paper from one ear, a wad of paper, a piece of lead and an eraser from the other...
...mother should not kiss and cuddle her baby, should turn a deaf ear when he cries, should feed and tend him with cold regularity. So ran the advice most pediatricians gave parents a few years ago. But many of these "scientific," timetable children have grown up neurotic, unhappy. So the doctors have returned to Nature: they now believe in old-fashioned mother love and intelligent laissez faire...
This nine-way confusion was worse confounded when all nine agencies turned up in OPM's priorities division, each demanding copper, zinc, iron and steel. Certifier Palmer and Allocator Carmody also yelled contradictory advice in OPM's ear. Month ago, Palmer once more got the Presidential nod, was given certifying power over all defense housing priorities. Carmody, who sees no need for Palmer's job, would gladly take it over. Last July he told a House committee that the Coordinator's title was spelled "d-i-c-t-a-t-o-r." Last week he said...
...motivation for this situation and a mort of others becomes so hopelessly entangled that nobody really tries to get the straight of it. Mr. Gable, who can glide through this kind of thing without wiggling an ear, is devilish good in his sure-fire part; so are Frank Morgan (retired judge and practicing drunkard) and Claire Trevor (dancehall hostess). A super Western salted with equal dashes of shooting and sex, Honky Tank will burn no tongues, gag few gullets...