Word: eared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simpson had arrived at Balmoral Castle while the second para graph said that the Duke & Duchess of York had opened the Royal Infirmary at Aberdeen. While Their Royal Highnesses were doing so. His Majesty, wearing a kilt and with a Scottish tarn o' shanter set jauntily over one ear, arrived at the Aberdeen railway station and greeted Mrs. Simpson as she alighted to be his guest...
Though it controls most of the means of getting the public's eye and ear in the U. S., the Right always has a tough time presenting its case. Convinced that conservatives have either a poor case or no case at all. writers, artists and other people engaged in handling ideas tend to gravitate to the Left. Result is that the Left is usually vociferous, the Right inarticulate. And while the better business orators have turned from reviling the New Deal to extolling what is loosely called "the American Way." industry as a whole has had to fall back...
...President Wilhelm Miklas of Austria and to Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg. He went nightly to the State Opera or ballet with Mrs. Simpson and daily with Mrs. Simpson to the office of Herr Professor Doktor Heinrich Neumann who last year treated the Prince of Wales for inflammation of the middle ear, this year took X-rays of King Edward's ears, treated them for the after-effects of a cold. The local British Legation issued twittery communiques which tended to alarm public opinion in Great Britain by assiduously insisting that nothing was the matter and that Dr. Neumann "found...
...features to droop lopsidedly. Other surgeons treat facial neuralgia by injecting alcohol into the nerve, thus stultifying it for a period. This procedure is difficult. The operator must push his hypodermic needle through the cheek and into a small notch in the skull midway between cheek bone and ear. Then he must blindly puncture a nerve slimmer than the lead of a pencil. If he misses the nerve, the alcohol causes dreadful pain. Many victims prefer the neuralgia...
...half-brained patient made a remarkably good convalescence, went back to her family, capably took care of the house and children, gained weight and strength. Some paralysis and dullness of sensation remained on her left side; her face was lopsided. She could hear with only one ear, smell with only one nostril. Nevertheless, her friends noted no mental deterioration or personality change. She read constantly. Her sense of distance and perspective seemed unaffected...