Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with his patrician heritage. His editorials, ground out with painful slowness, are almost pedantically preoccupied with both sides of the question. They are invariably prosaic and humorless. His advocacy last year of the abolition of Jim Crow busses and streetcars in Virginia, which set the whole South on its ear, was put forward in a quiet editorial entitled "The Conservative Course in Race Relations." Excerpt: "Many Virginians probably do not know it, but we have now arrived at the point where radicals from the North will find it easy to secure a large following . . . unless reasonable and proper concessions...
...Marcel Andre Henri Felix Petiot is a tall, elegant man whose brown curly beard stretches from ear to ear. Seven months ago a peculiar odor coming from his Paris house attracted unwanted attention. Inside, police found the remains of 50 to 60 persons, bits of their clothing and jewelry. At first they could not find Dr. Petiot, but last fortnight they did. He was waiting for a subway in the Saint-Mande station. Dr. Petiot wore the uniform of an F.F.I captain...
...Ear Infections. Local, treatment with penicillin solutions can cure abscesses in the ear's outer canal. Penicillin injections have even saved the necessity of mastoid operations...
...Auden (The Orators, For the Time Being), most influential of the younger poets, has made a selection of 60 poems from the mass of Tennyson's works, reintroduced them with a sharply critical but respectful preface. Tennyson, says Auden, was really rather stupid, but he had "the finest ear, perhaps, of any English poet." In addition, unlike many of his successors, he refused to fall into "the error of making a religion of the esthetic." Tennyson's message, concludes Poet Auden, in words that would make Victorian moralists nod approvingly, is not art for art's sake but recognition...
After the performance, Chicago's critics were amiable indeed. Glowed Critic Claudia Cassidy of the Tribune: "Her Juliet is breathtakingly beautiful to the eye and dulcet to the ear ... an exquisite performance within her vocal limitations, and considering the way she looks, not many are going to quibble about a few notes here and there." Said the Sun's learned Felix Borowski: "The singer has the small, almost the adolescent voice, which gave her vocalism the girlish timbre at least, which some other Juliets of operatic history-most of them fair, fat and forty-generally have lacked...