Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with article XVII of the Irish Free State constitution which permits no member of the Free State Parliament to take his seat until he has taken the oath of allegiance. With Mr. De Valera swore the 44 deputies of his Fianna Fail or Republican party. To a strictly judicial ear such mass swearing must have seemed to mean only one thing: formal abandonment by Eamon De Valera of his life-long battle to carve asunder from Britain an "Irish Republic...
...Emons, of Akron, Ohio, conceived the idea. He reasoned that horses' eyes must be as fallible as human eyes. He invented tests with lights. But no one would listen. Finally he borrowed Mr. Bradley's ear. He examined some of Mr. Bradley's horses and found one with weak eyes. He set a small hurdle in front of the beast and Mr. Bradley watched the horse walk toward it and bump his shins. Mr. Bradley ordered his whole stable tested. Dr. Emons made glasses for four of them. They race truer. Previously near the rail or in a bunch...
Smack! went Mrs. Stillman's hand on the nearest photographer's ear. He fell, soon followed by his fellow...
From the Battices' cabin came a gurgling scream. All hands bounded down the companionway. There lay Mrs. Battice with a necklace of blood under her chin, from ear to ear. Mr. Battice was mumbling: "She said she loved Badke...
...central North Dakota that most concerns North Dakotans, according to Judge McFarland. Though North Dakota has Deen a Non-Partisan League stronghold, the delegation agreed that should the President wish a call from the people for another term, he could hear the desired voice merely by turning his ear toward his neighbors in the north. ¶"Snip!" went shears in the hands of John Mays, White House valet, "snip, snip, snip!" The President was having his hair cut. Not unduly selfconscious, the President had the operation performed on the State Lodge porch while, despatches reported, "many tourists stopped to gaze...