Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard has been written by one who has, apparently, never been there. According to "Time", estimable weekly news magazine, in its description of the demonstration at the Law School following the election of Dean Roscoe Pound to the Presidency of the University of Wisconsin, Harvard law students wear ear-tabs when it is cold: Harvard law students are "worried and weasel-faced"; Harvard law students when they cheer, say "Yeah...
...Harvard University. Through snow-beleagured quads, Harvard students began to march or slink to their luncheons. Outside Langdell Hall, a group loitered long, seemed, in fact, to have taken up a permanent station there. Others, curious, joined them. More and more kept coming, some with tippets, some with ear-tabs (for it was cold)?tall young men who waddled, short young men who strode; the worried, the weasel-faced, the debonair; men distinguished by their intelligence, by their apparel; lambs, lions, scoffers, leaders, bleaters, men who, in other clothing might have been artists. Seven hundred idle, able, rowdy, snobbish...
...hour, Sam Houston was leading a force to relieve the fort; but before he could do so it had fallen and its garrison had been massacred. But he met the Mexican Army at San Jacinto, routed it and took Santa Anna prisoner. Before the captive, Houston took a gnawed ear of corn from his pocket, saying: "Sir, do you ever expect to conquer men who fight for freedom, when their General can march four days with one ear of corn for his rations...
...France, to plead with Premier Herriot to recede from his position before it was too late and to warn him that he ran the risk of uniting all French Catholics against him,. He told the Premier that it was often difficult for small countries to reach the Papal ear; and if France were no longer at the Vatican, it would be next to impossible. "We can play the part of Big Brother without much cost and with great profit," he continued, "but if we leave, they will seek other friends to lay their case before the Vatican...
...more, no less importance than a butcher's apprentice of like military rank. Kreisler, on the other hand, found a method of using his musical knowledge for the benefit of the implacable machine. Hearing Death's orchestration booming, sputtering, whistling, mewing, he faced the music, inclined his ear. "Accustomed to the sound of deadly missiles," said he, 'I began to make observations of their peculiarities. ... I found that I could, with a trained musical ear, mark the spot where shells reached their acme, and so could give the almost exact range of the enemy's guns...