Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broke out. The Government consented to listen to an interpellation on the sardine-packers' strike in Brittany, but the Right Opposition objected and showed their antipathy by banging their desk-lids and shouting. The Left Opposition tried to shout down their opponents across the Chamber and in the ear-splitting din which resulted, Chamber President Painlevé was seen to rise, a pained expression on his face, put on his hat and depart, thereby signifying that the session was at an end. At this moment, several Communists rushed the Nationalist benches and a free fight began, to be ended...
...floods, the smother grief, and smother hope lest disappointment grieve, the range of hissing sea foam as its creamy lines slide down the sand"--almost every phrase is in itself alive with a sort of electric thrill. "Sharon" by Stuart Ayers is pleasantly young, pretty, musical in the ear that listens to "something singing over the hill". The pastoral images are there again and the wistful feeling that escapes "over the hill". Content with these elements of poetry, Mr. Ayers depends on simplicity of statement for his effect...
...have committed no offense. I have violated no law. I have committed no crime. I have neither solicited, nor accepted any bribe. In my official acts I have an ear for the poor and the down-trodden of the State. I have made the best fight I could...
...story goes: Selina Peake, sprite of poverty, married Pervus De Jong, Illinois potato man. No amount of grubbing could deaden Selina. After years of it, she could still stick radishes behind her ear and dance for Dirk, her boy, only "so big." Dirk grew up and trailed off into a dull love-jam involving a nice girl and a naughtyish one. Also, Selina, old and bent, peddled her potatoes on Prairie Avenue, Chicago...
Specially designed to soothe the ear and tickle the rib are these items on the song and dance schedule: Lady, Be Good; Kid Boots, Music Box Revue, I'll Say She Is, Dixie to Broadway, The Grab Bag, Rose-Marie, Ziegfeld Follies...