Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that of causing to be struck, as soon as possible after inauguration day, a bronze medal bearing the new Presi'dent's likeness. No effort or money is spared to reproduce the last freckle, pock, line, whisker; the exact crook of nose, areas of baldness, hair part, ear convulsions, etc., for the Presidential medals constitute the official record of what each President looked like while in office. Until about ten years ago, the medals were called "Indian peace medals," hundreds of them being distributed to chieftains at the beginning of every administration. Presidential medals can be obtained...
...very well that Easterners should boost the East and the native sons of California shout their claim to fame in every ear, but when the Mid-West gets together and plans to yell for their section, the East seems to become offended. Eastern papers are said to be a sophisticated lot, but when one of them comes forth with a story filled with bunk and hokum about the so-called "comparatively unimportant college grid contest," then the boosters of the Mid-West cry "On to Harvard" with the largest possible exclamation point added for both Purdue and Indiana...
President Coolidge. When Arthur Brisbane came away from the White House luncheon table last week (see above), many an ear was enormously curious to hear what he had heard. Newsgatherers could not wait to read about it next day in the Brisbanal syndicate column. Had the President chosen this supereminent publicist, from whose pursed lips come editorial pearls, to confide an exegesis of the historic "do not choose" statement...
...played outside the house of a twelve-year-old elephant named Poetre, she listened with polite and melancholy attention. As the wild oboes wailed, she bent her huge head in self-conscious sorrow. When the brass horns shouted, she flapped the floor with a map of Africa, her right ear. For violins and cellos, ehe rolled her small bright eye. Then, when the crazy, jazzy saxophone blew a blue note, Poetre filled the geyser-ish trumpet of her nose with air and water, blew out a moan more liquid than the trombone's. In wet clothes and a panic...
...which he is not expected, of which he is unaware? That contingency, too, is now taken care of by a device invented by Research Engineer T. Spooner of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. and demonstrated last week at Bettis Field,*McKeesport, Pa. This device, essentially, is a mechanical ear which may be set to listen, while airport attendants sleep, for any ships that pass in the night. It is a microphone, with a large "loud-hearer" attached and turned skyward, with an adjustment preventing isolated or in- termittent sounds (thunder, gun shots) from registering. Only the steady...