Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shipping Board had been jolted by the dispute over the sale of five vessels to the Dollars. Second, a group of professional tonnage-lords was meeting in private in Manhattan (see below). Third, the country, having few other matters of immediate importance to consider, might lend an ear to his troubles-a monster armada of idle ships. So T. V. O'C. spoke. His plan: The U. S. Treasury should pay a bonus of $20 per month to every American who works on a ship which is bought by a U. S. firm from the Government and which...
...Prince stood up. Complete silence. Old Boer Senators leaned forward, hand behind ear in order that not one word of the Prince's English should escape their Dutch-hardened tympanums. "Meneer die Speaker," began the Prince in Boer Dutch. He got no further for some minutes. The Boer "rebels" let out one roar : Ous Prins! (Our Prince) and secession of South Africa from the British Commonwealth lay, apparently shattered, on the floor. Cheers, table banging, clapping, Boer and British songs finally over, the Prince continued, still speaking Dutch...
...Tennyson is the most appreciated of the English poets. The ear of even one unused to English can catch the beauty of his lines. But we have difficulty in understanding your poets like Browning whose meaning is hidden...
...This country is fast losing an ear for the beauty of the spoken voice. Beautiful things tried in the theatre are not half enough patronized. I call upon you to foster the beauty of the theatre, wherever you find...
Vincent ("Pepper") Martin, nimble lightweight, pursued an opponent around a ring in Manhattan last week, swinging his fists like mauls. At every swing, the opponent eluded, the empty air mocked the flailing fists. Desperate, Martin fell into a clinch, bent, as if whispering, to his opponent's ear. From this organ instantly spurted a scarlet jet of blood. "He bit me," yelled the astonished victim. Forthwith, the referee stopped the bout, awarded the decision to the bitten individual, one Joseph Celmars...