Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnson, Nevada's McCarran, Indiana's Van Nuys, South Carolina's Smith, Iowa's Gillette, Alabama's John Bankhead, issued statements ranging from plaintive pleading to desperate threats. Saturday Congress had stopped even pretending to keep its mind on its work, cocked an ear to Springfield, Ill., kept an eye on the ticker for a flash from the Panama Canal Zone...
Chief cook and bottle-washer is Eli Oberstein. He is vice president, general manager of his own company, raises its capital, signs its artists, tells them how and what to play. Himself a former pianist, trumpet, trombone and tuba player, he chooses his performers with a canny ear, is well able to and does give them pointers on how to toot their own horns. He spends all his evenings In night clubs, cabarets, bars, movies, musical shows, on the lookout for new bands and new tunes. His admiring associates think he can pick a hit more unerringly than any other...
...roving from one Brazilian settlement to another, playing in half-caste cabarets and straw-thatched cinema palaces. And he listened long and often to the jungly songs of Brazil's Indians, the hot, oozing rhythms of Brazil's primitive Negroes. With these in his inner ear, he started to write music-unorthodox, a new musical dialect made from aboriginal shouts and strummings. The salons of Rio de Janeiro made faces at it, thought it barbaric. But the peões in the thatched huts...
...methyl methacrylate, ethyl methacrylate, etc.) which hardens into a glassy plastic. In blocks of this stuff he immured small dead frogs, a tarantula, the bones of a human hand (see cuts); a rattlesnake's head, complete with fangs, a peacock feather, an iridescent butterfly, a garter snake, flowers, ears of corn, ears of barley. Secretary Wallace, Dr. Sando's chief, keeps a 13-inch ear of hybrid corn, forever young and fair, imbedded in Plexiglas on his desk. Spectators marveled last week at the realistic look of tiny hairs on the tarantula...
...assets of the system were listed at about $7,000,000 in 1922, when they bought control of it. Flashing an ear-to-ear grin, but keeping his own counsel, close-mouthed Howard Hopson reached far & wide. By 1938, Associated had bought or formed some 500 corporations. The top of the pyramid had been jacked far into the sky as Builder Hopson shoved more operating companies into the base, inserted sub-holding companies near its apex. At one time, some bottom operating companies had to feed through eleven layers to get their tribute to the capstone. Today Associated...