Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Birth. In the days when Calcutta was the capital of India,* a beturbaned servant entered the High Court where Bhuban Mohan Das, an attorney, was declaiming the law. It took some time before the lawyer could be persuaded to give ear to his excited servant, who was vainly struggling to enter the courtroom. When at last he came to the door, he was told by the groveling servitor that a fine, fat boy had been born to his wife. Home went Bhuban, to behold the youngster whom he was to name Chitta Ranjan...
...Sweden with disaster at the siege of Frederikshall? Emmanuel Swedenborg invented a machine to transport them overland. Did youths need verses in Latin for ladies? They applied to Swedenborg. Did house chimneys smoke or the deaf suffer? Swedenborg cured the chimneys and gave the deaf an ear trumpet. Did the world need an interpretation of the Scriptures? Swedenborg furnished...
Theology emanating from Gainesville, Tex., tickled the ear of the musical press last week. The Gainesville despatch in part...
...chronic religious conflagrations, western New York was then known as the "burnt over" district. Brigham lent ear to all itinerant moralizers, faith to none. Said he: "I saw them get religion all around me. Men were rolling and bawling and thumping." At 23, "to prevent being any more pestered," he became a Methodist...
...TIMER," may I have your ear one moment to whisper a slogan which, to me at least, is appropriate for your excellent publication...