Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years Ed Kelly and Pat Nash, the sewer contractor, had run Chicago. That was a long time. Now Pat was dead, and the Boss was 70. The committeemen watched as Corporation Counsel Barnet Hodes whispered in the Boss's ear...
...Boss and Corporation Counsel Hodes came back, and sweating Ed Kelly, chronic assassin of the King's English, began to speak. No one, he said, had ever before voluntarily resigned as chairman of the Cook County Democratic Committee, They either died, or got tossed out on their ear, he said. He wound up: "I hereby render-uh-tender my resignation." The boys clapped, there were murmurs of "Aw, Boss...
Growled the Boss: "I put the name of Colonel Arvey in nomination." Grinning from ear to ear, the little owl-eyed man with the sunburned bald spot stood up. Nominations were quickly closed. Jake ("Call me Jack") Arvey was the new chairman of Cook County. The meeting adjourned in time for the first race...
...A.R.I, executive has stated the objectives concisely: "We deal with people and money; we're not interested in morals and that stuff." Hollywood, also passionately interested in people and money, is bending a fairly respectful ear these days to A.R.I.'s detailed advice...
...hostess; the novel exhibits the breakdown of 1) the principle of selection, 2) the circle, and 3) the hostess. Miss Howe (sister of radio commentator Quincy Howe, daughter of Mark De Wolfe Howe) works a modest claim in territory on which J. P. Marquand had an option. Her ear is attentive, though incapable of his flights of parody; her knowledge of Boston, Cambridge and Harvard politics is sharp and sometimes subtle; her style is firm, though it would have been firmer to reject a few cliches: metaphors involving roots and tides appear regularly at big moments. All the big moments...