Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sprague, wealthy Chicago wholesale grocer (Sprague. Warner & Co.), sister of Col. Albert A. Sprague, 1924 Democratic candidate for U. S. Senator from Illinois. Inhabitants of Pittsfield and environs tell anecdotes of her troublesome deafness and marvel that her interest in music is so intense, little knowing that an ear unsensitive to hurly-burly street sounds and flat conversational tones is the more sensitive to nuance in musical vibrations...
...past seasons mentioned alternately as a rake and a curmudgeon, the grim Grover Cleveland Alexander. Long before the game he declared that he would win. He chewed tobacco and went to sleep on second base. But with the young bats of his cardinal-hatted friends rat-tatting in his ear Grover Cleveland Alexander won the game. Score: St. Louis, 10; New York...
...socially presentable, 3) between 30 and 40 years old. . . . It would be a desideratum of course that he possess an independent competence." Financial capacity was explained: "Not ... a mere knack of handling the funds. ... A well-spoken speech may net only ten, where a word in the right ear will net a hundred thousand dollars or a new gymnasium." Intellectual "safety" was defined: "He must be devoid of all purely rational principles and ideas of any sort . . . cannot be a Roman Catholic, a Quaker, a Holy Roller. . . . Above all, he should understand how to befog issues wherein ideas perhaps lurk...
...Peary wrote of him: "Harrigan acquired this sobriquet on account of his ear for music. The crew used to be fond of singing that energetic Irish air which was popular for some years along Broadway and which concludes ungrammatically with the words 'Harrigan-that...
Rumors to the contrary, the new bell in Harvard Hall is a worthy acquisition. A deep tone not alone fails to irritate but even pleases the ear of the sleepless one who hears its seven o'clock tribute to tradition. And the solemn announcement that another class has departed its watch-pocketing professor (bad phrase) comes well, very well from its melodious clapper...