Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...water or lemonade. It is quite likely that "Johnny Harvard" was sung with glasses in hand. Take away the wine from the banquet and the glasses from the song and the two cases are practically parellel-except that singing a toast in public is more attractive to the ear than speaking a toast in public...
Among metropolitan musical comedies the following are most hospitable to the weary eye and ear: Ziegfeld Follies, Scandals, Wildflower, Helen of Troy, N. Y., Little Jessie James...
...Robert Barany (1876-), Austrian otologist, now professor at Upsala, Sweden, specialist in neurology of the inner ear...
...Story. Some call it the Drayma, some the Drammer, the largest proportion simply and succinctly the Movies. But, anyhow, whether you go in for the newest expressionistic fling in any number of scenes in which the hero is an ear-wig? and the heroine the Spirit of the Single Tax and all the action takes place offstage or stick to the simple mystery play where bodies are always falling out of chinaclosets and nobody knows who the real detective is, you will be pretty sure to find something to your taste in Mr. Leacock's latest book of burlesques...
...Serious Scholar will recognize these accessories as relating to an earlier epoch. He will recall the ancient musical show when the comedian's ear, properly punched, burst into full cauliflower. He will, in short, remember the days when musical comedy humor depended essentially on the comedian's ability to fall on his face...