Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howey, who rang the bell with his Iroquois Theater fire scoop (1903) and turned Chicago newspaperdom on its ear by his banner-lined blasting of thieving politicos, has quieted down since the old raw-meat days. In recent years he has been running Hearst's dreary Boston tabloids, the Record and American, in quiet, nice-old-boy fashion. So while some of his greying onetime minions like Burton Rascoe and Charlie MacArthur may have felt a twinge of nostalgia, they could not have been surprised to hear that mellowing Walter Howey's first move on the Sunday-supplement...
...cauliflower ear of the prize fighter is well known. Less familiar are the banged-up "dealer shins" of the junk dealer, garbage collector, truck driver, foundry worker...
About 5 a.m. Harrell was awakened by rifle fire near his ear. By the light of the yellow star shells he saw Carter firing away at four Japs who had tried to filter through the line. They lay where they fell, ten feet away...
...intended for public announcement until next Wednesday, the Committee report was spread over front pages in New York and Boston Monday in a press scandal that set the University Press, which is handling publicity for the book, on its ear...
...Miguel de Santiago, an artist of Quito, has been released from prison, where he went for slashing off his wife's ear. (For one thing, she had let dirt fall on a painting he had finished and left to dry.) As penance, the artist is going to paint a religious picture. He binds a pupil to the cross, but the expression the master wants is not quite right until he thrusts a lance through the model's body. Santiago's Christ of the Agony is offered in evidence at his trial for murder, and the judges decide...