Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gallery was crowded. In the front row, leaning over the rail, was Britain's cadaverous Ambassador, Lord Halifax, one hand cupped to his good ear. Over & over again, Texan Tom Connally, who had snorted interventionist fire in the Senate before the war, now breathed peace. Said he: "Peace can be preserved. . . . We leagued our armed might for war. Now let us league our moral and material might for peace...
...Claude wore in court a cumbersome hearing device of his .own invention It did not work very well. When the jury returned a verdict, he said: "Eh?" The presiding judge shouted louder. Still the old man did not hear. Finally his counsel put his lips to Claude's ear, bawled: "Life imprisonment!" The old man nodded. Wagging his head mournfully, he was led away...
Some other major medical "errors": examination of children's ears with otoscopes, also surgical puncturing of their eardrums (responsible for many ear infections), mineral oil nose drops (they may cause pneumonia), premature attempts at straightening teeth. Doctors, says Dr. Bakwin, are prone to diagnose flat feet, large tonsils, malocclusion, heart murmur and poor posture as serious ailments when they are only normal variations that would be better let alone...
...Sunday calls on fellow undergraduates in morning dress and top hat. He watched Poet Matthew Arnold (in lavender kid gloves) "slipping through the Balliol gateway" on visits to Platonist Benjamin Jowett (who seemed to be always "hurrying, like Puck, to 'hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear'"). He saw Lewis Carroll "flitting, flitting like a shy bird into some recess of Christ Church." He sat at the feet of Esthete Walter Pater, whose mustaches hung "pendulous in the shadow." He became stroke of the Trinity boat. During vacations he read the classics, climbed the mountains...
...Mexico, who had never harmed a flea in his life, could achieve such fame-and such authority? A paragraph of Up Front casts some light on the mystery. After five years in the Army, Bill Mauldin fully understands the infantryman, and he has a sharp eye, a good ear and a facile pen for transmitting his understanding. He wrote...