Word: eared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your comparison of Winston Churchill to Garner was certainly lacking in imagination [TIME, Aug. 14]. They are about as much alike politically or otherwise as a Lion and a Mule. By standards of culture, background and accomplishment, Churchill is a "Silk Purse" and Garner a "Sow's Ear...
...ornate old U. S. Post Office Building in Chicago's Loop has been carefully guarded from the press. Three tired deputy marshals, under orders to arrest loiterers, watched the three entrances and occasionally looked into an adjoining toilet to see that no reporter had his ear glued to the door. Inside Room 475 a Federal Grand Jury was investigating the income of one of the biggest U. S. publishers, and neither smart young District Attorney William Campbell nor his Washington boss, Frank Murphy, wanted to risk a complaint that the case was being tried in the newspapers...
...white-cross-belted British Guardsmen; rakish, bereted Chasseurs à pied (Blue Devils); smart ski-shouldering Chasseurs Alpins; bearded Foreign Legionnaires; burnoosed Spahis with shoulder-slung rifles on Arabian ponies or brandishing lances on racing dromedaries; turbaned brown Madagascar riflemen; sun-helmeted white Colonial scouts; fezzed black Senegalese sharpshooters; earthshaking, ear-shattering tanks-all ablaze with the armed might of Imperial France. In the reviewing stand, half-hidden behind politicians and visiting dignitaries, stood a little man with grey hair, a small grey mustache, in a small blue-grey uniform-Commander-in-Chief Gamelin. He could hardly be seen...
This week, however, ear-to-the-ground Neville Chamberlain told the House that Cabinet Ministers, forbidden since 1906 to hold directorships in public companies, would henceforth be obliged to give up also their directorships in private companies (unincorporated companies not required to issue annual reports). It was revealed that the hardest hit Minister, shipping tycoon Lord President of the Council Viscount Runciman, had already given up six important private directorships...
...months ago Jim Farley completed a tour of 13 Midwestern and Western States to assay Roosevelt third-term sentiment. What he found was never published. He loyally saved it for Franklin Roosevelt's ear first. Weeks rolled by and Jim Farley was not asked for his information. Jim Farley did not like that. Then Mr. Roosevelt appointed brash, ambitious Paul McNutt, whom Jim Farley dislikes, to a post of honor and influence (Security Agency). Jim Farley boiled...