Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a citizen, not unwilling to lend an ear to the plight of "prisons abroad," nevertheless wondered why the President had ever appointed one of their number especially to deal with such a subject. The answer is: In 1878, there were a dozen international conferences. One, at Berlin, had to do with peace (Disraeli v. Bis marck). Another, no longer mentioned in history books, had to do with prisons and resulted in a commission to which Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, etc. each contributed a commissioner. Mr. Chisolm was the U. S.'s fourth contribution. To succeed him, the President must...
...Windsor, Ontario, last week, one Mrs. Jackson found a mad kitten swinging by its sharp incisor teeth from the lobe of her 5-year-old daughter Jeanette's ear...
Seizing tail, Mrs. Jackson tugged kitten from torn ear, killed kitten. Soon Dr. Frederick Adams, a Board of Health official, cut off kitten's head and sent it to the Provincial Laboratories at Toronto to be examined for rabies symptoms. Meanwhile prattling Jeanette Jackson received Pasteur treatment, did not seem to have rabies...
Warming Up. Paramount, too, has gone into the talkie business. Nobody talks in Warming Up; but the ill-timed crack of a bat against a baseball, the ear-splitting yawp of the crowd, the squawk of an offstage soprano are in the air, now and then. The story purports to tell how the Yankees won the World Series when a bush-league pitcher (Richard Dix) peered into the grandstand, saw his girl (Jean Arthur) signal that she would marry him. Then he fanned the opposition, including his dastardly rival. So full of hebetude is the film that baseball fans squirmed...
This amazing reversal of time-honored Mexican methods was attributed by some to hypothetical words of counsel supposed to have reached the ear of President Calles, last week, from the lips of U. S. Ambassador and onetime Morgan Partner Dwight Whitney Morrow. Conceivably General Zertuche was naively reacting to Presidential orders and Ambassadorial advice when he nervously and repeatedly ejaculated to correspondents, "Must keep calm...