Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Minister Resident Hood recently left Monrovia, the State Department announced that Reed P. Clark, white, former Consul at Mexico City, had been made Consul General and Charge d' Affaires at that place. Last week Negro politicians began to pour protests into the ear of Secretary Kellogg. The head of the legation at Monrovia had always been a Negro. Why could not Secretary Wharton have been made Charge d' Affaires? He had been in the service less than a year, was not eligible. Then why not one of the gentlemen at La Rochelle,* St. Etienne, Tananarive**? The Negro protestants feared...
...Fund is intended to supply money for the many extra budget needs which always present themselves Since no stipulations are attached to the use of the fund, it can be expended in filling the largest breaches in the budget. By thus closing the inevitable gaps between the larger gifts ear marked for a specific purpose, the fund supplies a long-felt want...
...Story. Down on the lobe of the great elephant's ear that is Africa lives Mary Adams Glenn, in a farmhouse on the lonely veld below blue mountains. The farm belongs to Brand van Aardt, the slow, dependable lover of her girlhood. She lives there virtually on his charity with the amiable mediocrity whom she married instead of Brand. They have a ten-year-old boy, Jackie, and she is soon to bear again...
Despatches reported that the barmaid yielded when Prince Gustaf's aide whispered his identity in her ear. Swedish antiprohibitionists were vexed...
...United Fruit Co. Dr. Desnoes has been having the company ship-doctors gather data on the malady, known also as mal de mer and nausea marma, to which most people, even sailors, are subject. He as found that there are five theories for its causation: 1) the labyrinthine (the ear contains two tiny sacs, the utricle and the saccule, and three semicircular canals, all of which aid in special orientation); 2) "muscle sense" disturbance (the muscle nerves localize in space the position of the limbs, head, eyes and other parts of the body); 3) eyestrain (the patient gets dizzy looking...