Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oklahoma City, when Marvin Payne tried to kiss his wife to prove to police that they had not been quarreling, she bit his ear...
...cramped little apartment in downtown Rio, chaotically cluttered with papers, overflowing ashtrays, strange native instruments and dozens of hats (he collects them). There he has lived, ranting in a mixture of Portuguese and his fluent French, or composing quietly in a corner with a phonograph blaring in his ear. When visitors come, he can be rude ("I hate singers," he once bellowed at one he had just met), or he may entertain them for hours, playing records or showing them how he can sound three different rhythms all at once-with hands, feet and mouth...
Sound Effects. Ultrasonic (high frequency) sound waves were reported on by Dr. Julia F. Herrick, of the Mayo Foundation. These violent little waves (far too short for the ear to hear) can have strange effects on living organisms. They vibrate so fast that they leave small cavitations (empty spaces) between them, and these can tear microorganisms, or human cells, to bits...
...Steps. Strapping John Lardner was born on Chicago's South Side while his father was a sportwriter on the old Chicago Examiner. Of the Lardner boys,* only John has followed in his father's sport steps. He also seems to have inherited his father's ear for speech and tongue for humor. After a year at Harvard, he went to work on the Paris Herald, then spent three years on its parent paper in Manhattan, under City Editor Stanley Walker. He married the boss's secretary, Hazel Cannan, and became a sportwriter, and later war correspondent...
...tintype grandmother. Her birdlike, smiling face was framed in a white lace collar and black ribbon choker; on her feet were pointed little one-button shoes. But there were surprising touches too: as a guard for her wedding ring she wore a blue celluloid chicken band, and one ear had a bright green dab of paint...