Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world. Sometimes one is born in a covering caul which has to be ripped off by a profit-motivated finger. Sometimes the heaving, grunting sows, from weakness, clumsiness or distress, lie or roll on their farrow. Sometimes they try to eat them. Sweeter to a pig farmer's ear than the ethereal fluting of the prairie lark is a sow's "pumping," the regular ugh, ugh, ugh, which means that the litter has discovered how to suckle and that the sow, heaving over with a sigh to expose her batteries of teats, has taken on the thankless task...
...resulting story set Mrs. Stertz -and Chicago - on its ear. Hurriedly, Land lady Stertz dragged Betty's bed out of the tent, punched a Her aid-American photographer in the nose, set her brother to giving other newsmen the bum's rush. Fire Department and Health Department officials arrived. So, belatedly, did the embarrassed OPA. Cried Mrs. Stertz: "My base ment is the showplace of Chicago." Betty became a newspaper heroine. The Allied Florists Association sent her flowers, and 25 people offered her better places to stay. But Betty, who had her bed back, decided to stick...
...advantages of such a game over ordinary practice are "infinite," according to Harlow, in that movies are taken which can later be analyzed, and all the mistakes noted be ear marked for correction. It also, affords an opportunity for the effectiveness of new plays to be determined...
...clarify the misconceptions evidenced in the article and in the statement of Mr. Rose, we enclose two pictures. One is of an actual Wellesley girl waiting for a bus to Chelsea (note the Phi Beta Kappa key over the right ear). The other is merely a typical product of our cooperative house at Radcliffe. The wonderful part about this Radcliffe "doll" is that she combines not only the legs of Mrs. Billy Rose and the brain of Miss Wellesley '46 but also she wraps it up very neatly in a 5 ft. 8 in., auburned-haired, 128 lb. package...
...journal: "Though the public had no suspicion of it, two men were performing there a colossal work that was useful to them both." The work ended when Van Gogh went mad, chased Gauguin down the street with a razor, then went home and sliced off his own ear...