Word: eared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been fumbling the ball," that the rest of the world was even worse off, and gave evidence that if Phil La Follette could not come up with a polished orchestration of what to do about it, he was supremely confident that he could play his way out by ear...
...doubt the aptness of your phrase "almost unprecedented" for Commander Bower's boxed ear at the hand of Mr. Shinwell in the House of Commons (TIME, April 18). On the contrary, I think you will find such conduct backed by several centuries of stanchest British precedent...
...just as Planner Townsend was about to give himself into the hands of a U. S. Marshal to begin his term, word came that Franklin Roosevelt had lent a sympathetic ear to Senator McAdoo, had pardoned Planner Townsend. Apparently not in the least crestfallen at losing a month's privacy and martyrdom, Dr. Townsend said: "It is complete vindication and an act of contrition on the part of Congress...
...Dido and Aeneas." Aided by a group from Radcliffe the singers entered into the occasion with a zest worthy both of Purcell's score and the lyrics of Nahum Tate, the Poet-Laureate of Restoration England, and they carried off the play with considerable colat. Particularly pleasant to the ear was Miss Nasmyth, the ardent and rejected heroine. Her singing was marked by beauty and clarity of tone, and her reserved expression strengthened the pathos of the third...
...from him. . . . He added that he was determined to meet the consequences. In 36 years of experience at the bar I had never heard such an astonishing statement. . . . There are other men without number who have sought legal advice to avoid or delay the law, have lent a willing ear to tactics or procrastination, have stooped to pleas denying mental or moral responsibility or have chosen the coward's course of flight from the country or from life. . . . Never once has he faltered. Never once has he asked consideration, much less mercy, for himself. With unbroken fortitude...