Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sprightly. Her movements are rapid and unaffected. A glance at her reveals a singular flame of honesty and intelligence. She sings with a pretty voice and a simply astounding amount of understanding, artistry and grace. With the sort of music she sings, a mere correct intonation of the ear-confounding sounds is an astonishment. In the ensemble of impressions, this little woman wears a strangely exotic...
...sophisticated tourist who saw the Passion Play at Oberammergau last summer may have heard the devil whispering in his ear. "It's queer but is it art?" Yet whether he shuddered at the obtrusive realism or twitched in his seat through the long choral renditions, he could not but be impressed by the character of the players. Nobody could quesion their zeal, their industry, and their lack of business ability, which is an earmark of the artist...
...Arthur Conan Doyle: "I announced that I created 'Sherlock Holmes' to be my advance agent. Years ago I reasoned that, through Holmes, people would hear of me and would accordingly lend ready ear to my preaching...
...looked upon with awe. Later the Valkyrie took up the fashion where Mercury left off, and still the people looked on it with awe. Finally Leonardo da Vinci, a mortal, decided that men could fly as well as gods and birds. To his endeavors people turned a deaf ear and a superstitious frame of mind, alternately calling him god and devil. He was classed with the witches and their broomstick flying machines. After his failure men gave up trying to propel themselves through the air by their own force and resorted to the aid of the new invention, the machine...
...system. They have sleepy friends, lazy friends, probation friends and, at times, friends who will relieve them of their work. It is not very pleasant to be continually on guard to see that unpopular rules are enforced; to be unsympathetic with a pleading friend, or to turn a deaf ear to well-constructed tales of woe. But the man who volunteers for the job knows in advance what he may expect; his reward, considering how little effort is required, is generous. The least that he can give in return is accuracy and justice...