Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seconds as the Premiers fall. In Canada matters of state are ordered betwixt these extremes. The Parliament must be re-elected every five years, and may be dissolved and re-elected at any time upon the fiat of the Governor General. The Governor General, like King George, generally gives ear to the reigning Premier in such matters. And he in turn responds by custom to any very marked indications that the public is restive and anxious to elect a new Parliament which will mean more power or oblivion for the Premier...
Pausing with the towel at his ear, he again looked out. There, in an automobile surrounded by six motorcycles, sat the Chief of Police; behind this entourage a group of bandsmen in blue coats with fine shiny instruments at their lips were striking up Dixie. It was all as he had imagined it a thousand times. Those horns had blared, that mighty shout unfurled its cloudy splendors in his dreams a thousand times; he had always had a feeling that some day it would come...
Foresters and the press began to denounce U. S. woodcutters, asserting that Americans have bought many French forests and are cutting them down. The U. S. lumberman is so described: "With an ear-to-ear grin on his face and his hands overflowing with dollars milked from the rate of exchange, he scours the forest of Creuse and Correze, demolishing the beautiful chestnut trees. The forests of several French provinces are soon to fall under...
...suavely lurid as a tiger rug. It abandoned s practice of reproducing, under its title-head, a portrait, by some substantial master-folowed instead the example of The Dial, The Atlantic Monthly, The Yale Review by printing there its table of contents. There was little to remind the twitching ear-tabbed centenarian of the cover familiar to his halcyon days - the two roco pedestals that framed a page made acceptable for mid-centry boudoirs with a trinity of cherubs, two scattering flowers while the third his little round buttocks eclipsing the north pole of a small world wafted soapbubbles above...
...There were refreshments in the basement and cinemas on the roof and a trick pony which told fortunes with stamping hoof and twitching ear-all for a small admission fee that the public gladly paid...