Word: eared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Must compliment TIME and TIME'S Richard Harrison for the most excellent diagram of the ear. Through four years of Medicine have been looking for just such a drawing so clear and so concise. To my knowledge none appears in any textbook...
...Ears and Stomach. "Pilots suffer more frequently from occupational diseases of . . . [the ear] than from all other occupational diseases combined." Conditions of flight damaging the ear: 1) "changes of atmospheric pressure during ascent and descent"; 2) harsh, monotonous propeller and exhaust noises, which airplane manufacturers are unable to muffle. A common aeronautical affliction is "aero-otitis media." This is a "chronic inflammation of the middle ear caused by a pressure difference between the air in the [ear] cavity and that of the surrounding atmosphere. It ... occurs during changes of altitude," starts as a "hissing, roaring, crackling, or snapping," soon leads...
Less pleased was she by another wellwisher, who offered to buy one of the casualties, a slightly damaged bust of Lucretia Mott, for his rock garden, twine a vine over its missing ear. "Of all the insolence!" sniffed Mrs. Johnson. "Can you imagine my Lucretia in a rock garden...
...loves directing, though he belittles it as "a lot of over-rated goings-on." His ability to keep things moving and get every last chuckle out of a funny line is based on pounding away tirelessly at details, and on an infallible ear for the rhythm of conversation. He will rehearse a play for 15 minutes without looking at the stage, only listening to the dialogue. Suddenly he will call a halt, take out one word which interrupts the flow. No actor has ever managed to ad-lib even a syllable into his lines without Kaufman's spotting...
Died. Doktor Heinrich Ritter von Neumann 66, world-famed Austrian ear & throat specialist, himself partially deaf; of a gastric ailment; in Manhattan, where he had gone to assist in resettlement of Jewish refugees. His skill brought him summonses from Kings Edward VIII of England, Alphonso of Spain, Carol of Rumania, George of Greece, many a penniless sufferer. Only patient he refused to treat: Adolf Hitler...