Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liberals not even present. Thus Mr. George returns to the Commons none too enthusiastically supported by his little "corporal's guard" of Liberals. In the opening debates several Labor M. P.'s made flattering implied overtures to him. Observers opined that Mr. George is listening hard, with his ear to the ground...
While even the occupants of the royal box appeared to incline a willing ear, and the public galleries seethed amid a pandemonium of approval, Premier Mussolini spoke with a venomous suppressed fury as follows: "Let pan-Germans remember that Italy is ready, if necessary, to carry her banners beyond her present frontiers but back? never! . . . The German anti-Italian agitation is nefarious and ridiculous. I call it nefarious because it is based upon a tissue of lies which the Germans themselves know to be lies. I call it ridiculous because the Germans have thought to frighten our young proud Fascist...
...kinds of society and climate have had an unusual fling of popularity on the American stage in the last few years. Plays have been built upon those subjects which, in the words of "The Poor Nut," "It seems so public to talk about in private". Canny, producers with their ear to the ground have capitalized their patrons' taste for the salacious and thereby reaped a tritely-called golden harvest, "Rain"; although it deals frankly with the most delicate of subjects, has in it less of salacity than the average sophisticated revue. Unfortunately a not inconsiderable element of the audience...
...else has come and gloomy music critics who feel they must say fearful things about the performance in order to keep their reputation with the public, I always feel depressed. It's an up hill job. If society isn't listening and critics let it all in one ear and out the other while they listen to what the lady in the row behind is saying it is no use attempting to sing. On the other hand when it is obvious that the orchestra and balconies are filled by college students I am sure that the performance will...
Died. Dr. Adolf Passow, famed German ear specialist, immediately after having performed an operation for ear trouble upon former Kaiser Wilhelm; in a hospital at Utrecht, Holland, whither he had been rushed from Doorn, after suffering "a stroke...