Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sort of thing to shake the confidence of those who have always believed a silk purse could not be made out of a sow's ear...
...sort of band from the speech centre to the top of the lobe are successively the centres of the face, the arms, the trunk, the legs, the feet. Then comes a large fissure (or sulcus) immediately back of which are the cutaneous and muscular sensory. Dropping to the ear region one finds the large higher auditory centre. At the top of the lobe and a little back of centre is the stereognostic, whereat the brain recognizes the nature of solid bodies through the widely diffused sense of touch. At the hind end of the cerebrum is the visual centre...
...Bell explained the whole process, which is most extraordinary. It had been put in communication with Osborne Cottage, and we talked with Sir Thomas and Mary Biddulph, also heard some singing quite plainly. But it is rather faint, and one must hold the tube close to one's ear." Bismarck. "A terrible man, infamous, hateful, monstrous!" Tennyson. "He is very peculiar looking and oddly dressed, but there is no affectation about him." Garibaldi (whose revolutionary tactics against the petty Italian states made possible the present United Kingdom of Italy). "I much regret the extravagant excitement [in England] respecting Garibaldi...
...well-fed Britisher, he spoke with the accent peculiar to Piccadilly Circus. He discussed the U. S. Civil War with a comfortable affability, an easy indifference, a polished negligence. To indicate that he had aged during the performance, he hooked on a fringe of whiskers running from ear to ear...
Opera singers die a thousand deaths. In almost every role, the last curtain finds them sprawled across a parapet, pierced by treacherous bullets, boiled in the oil-vat of some inquisitor or crumpled upon a doorstep with their throats, their canary throats, slit from ear to ear. But in life, as everyone knows, opera singers have to be careful of their health. This last reflection was one that occurred to Beniamino Gigli, celebrated tenor, as he sat in a Detroit hotel, one night last week, staring at a piece of paper. He read...