Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chamber, Herr Bock, aged 78, oldest Reichstag member, rang a bell to signify that the second Reichstag of the German Republic was in session for the first time. The Communists evidently felt that this was a signal for celebration, for they broke into a series of discordant yells and ear-splitting howls, which they mellowed by clanking cow bells and blowing whistles. The remaining members of the Reichstag did not help matters by hissing and roaring long and loud, "Throw them out." Neither did Herr Bock diminish the noise one iota by waving his private bell and squeaking "Order! Order...
...final poem "Love and the Garlands" he uses, with workmanship nearly perfect, the trochaic pentameter of Browning's "One Word More" in a sestina. Indeed his feeling for rhythm is so keen and so subtile that some of his verses will not read themselves to an ear less delicately trained than his own; and his work is in a way analogous to the music of certain modern composers. Combined with his generous freedom in trisyllabic feet is the liberty that he takes with orthodox forms in substituting pauses for syllables and in docking the first feet of pentameters. To those...
...content with overworking this time-worn device, the authors go on to pack their scenes with soul-tearing and ear-splitting melodrama which at times verges on farce. Indeed it seemed to us that this play should not have been chosen, especially for the limited scope of a stock company...
Romero had been battered mercilessly through four of the six rounds, however, and when he received the terrific right to the jaw and the flailing right back of the ear that ended the fight, his left eye was closed with a swelling that extended half way up his forehead and his lips were bleeding profusely. He had been knocked down three times and through a good part of the bout went careening drunkenly around the ring taking almost everything Johnson had to give...
...spite of Jacob Ben-Ami and Blanche Yurka, Man and the Masses is, to the American eye and ear, full of sound and fury, and otherwise naught...