Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wants to believe, does believe, that Germany is prosperous and can pay the sums demanded of her in Reparations (see Inter-national). The majority may be right again, but last week some very pessimistic information about the Reich was vouchsafed by an expert known to have the ear and confidence of U. S. President Herbert Hoover. Indeed this expert, Dr. Julius Klein, was responsible for building up under Secretary of Commerce Hoover one of the most favorably-known trade in formation bureaus possessed by any state. He has just returned from a series of conferences with U. S. commercial attaches...
Little Tsar Boris of the Bulgarians lay abed in Vienna last fortnight with a pain in the ear, and in Bulgaria many a cafe owner knew not what to call his groggery and it all seemed to be the Pope's fault...
...senior students have gone out as members of the touring choir, proven themselves as choristers. But back in Dayton they have learned more than the art of group singing. The Williamson course includes ear-training, conducting, hymnology, English, harmony, musical theory, history of music, Bible and church music literature. Five school days a week begin at 7:30 A. M. In addition there is field work, the organizing and conducting of graded choirs; then a tour (thus the personnel of the first choir changes each year); then church positions to be administered in the Williamson way. Already more than...
...North Arlington, N. J., Author Bryan Hamilton Connolly, aged 14, pondered. The manuscript of his unfinished novel, The Marble Coffin, lay before him, and he had just written: "Your kids are being held for $500,000 ransom. Beginning tomorrow we will cut an ear off each one every day until the money is sent to us. When the ears are gone we will cut off their toes one by one." It was an effective piece of writing, but how would normal parents react to such a letter? Author Connolly, recalling the existence of his nine-year-old brother...
Only a trained ear would detect in this powerful pronouncement the fact that General Smuts was weasling and must weasle every word he says about the "race problem." True, the Negroes of Cape Colony vote for him, but they are the only blacks in all South Africa who are enfranchised; and in all the other provinces General Smuts draws his support from whites who are fanatically opposed to giving their blackamoor neighbors the ballot...