Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Distracted, the rich and pious Shet Arjunlal dashed about like a Mexican jumping-bean on a skillet. When told that one dog had leaped over a barrier, chewed off the ear of another dog and eaten it, Shet Arjunlal tore his garments...
...fifty fifty chance, which is not a very satisfactory state of affairs. They have been very foolish. Only a peek at the histories of Rome, France, or Bagdad would have shown that their method is not the way to sway Empires. A whisper in the right ear at the right time has always been much more effective than mountains of resolutions and cohorts of deputations. Publicity where an appointment is concerned is nearly always fatal. The ladies who want things done at Geneva ought to be reminded that a woman can sometimes succeed when she is inconsistent but hardly ever...
Last week President Wark got up to talk in chapel. From heads, reverently bowed, from mouths buried in hymn books, veiled in handkerchiefs, courteously concealed by immobility and cupped fingers, rose a sound. "H-s-s-ssss." Dr. Wark paid no attention. Ear- lier in the morning a janitor had cut down a straw effigy, bearing a distant resemblance to Dr. Wark, from the bough of a campus tree...
...individual," stated Lorenzen in the opening speech for the affirmative. "It impairs his initiative, his judgement. If we continue to stress the importance of science, man will no longer be man, but a psychological creation, clad in the skin of a hairless, limbless, brainless mollusk, with one abnormal ear glued continually to a telephone receiver attached to a storage 'think-tank...
When I arrived at last before the local gendarmerie I paused to look at the thermometer. I looked and sighed. Decidedly, it was going to be another of those days; it had all the ear marks, for it was only 9 A. M. and the mercury had already passed the 84 degree mark, Centigrade, which translated into Fahrenheit means 125 degree, which, in turn; means a Turkish bath sort of existence. For, without undue effort, the temperature will rise to 130 degrees and 135 degrees around noon time, and that is registered in the shade. Those familiar with North Africa...