Word: eared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contention that Patagonia was a man's country: a favorite Indian pick-me-up for a hangover was a mixture of raw liver, heart, kidneys and blood of a guanaco (llama-like native antelope). When two men were having a fight, one bit off the other's ear; the earless man got his opponent down, beat him about the face till he swallowed the ear. As indication that not all Patagonian hard cases are yet dead, jailed or retired, Jimmy wrote the Childses after their departure that he was sorry to say that a man Mrs. Childs...
...Washington, D. C. last week went Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, not to sing but to lobby. As president of American Guild of Musical Artists, Inc., Mr. Tibbett sought the ear of the House Immigration Committee. Chairman of that committee is a citizen of Manhattan's lower East Side named Samuel Dickstein, who made his political reputation framing tenement and kosher food laws. Mr. Tibbett had come to persuade Mr. Dickstein & committee that the present arrangement by which foreign musical artists are permitted to perform in the U. S. is far from kosher to the musical profession...
Last week Dr. Jackson and many another bronchoscopist were in Denver for a convention of the American Laryngological (throat), Rhinological (nose) & Otological (ear) Society. There Dr. Samuel Iglauer of Cincinnati told about a rare case of collapse of a lung caused by a blood clot plugging a bronchial tube. Dr. Iglauer, professor of otolaryngology in the University of Cincinnati, slipped a bronchoscope into the lung, extracted the clot, enabled the lung to function again...
...cicadas have grown dark, are ready to fly. For four or five weeks they frolic in the sunshine. After mating and egg-laying they die. The males have two drums of cartilage beneath their wings and muscles which vibrate them rapidly. With this apparatus they set up an ear-splitting racket. As a mating call, this is wasted effort, because the females seem to have no auditory organ whatever. It is possible, however, that as snakes perceive the vibrations of sound with their tongues, the female cicada may feel the shrill song of the male with her antennae or some...
...some brown and some white and some dirty children. I mean some of them were cute; but one was a brat! She threw stones at me; I mean she actually picked up a rock and let it go for all she was worth; and it hit me behind the ear. Behind the ear it hit me; and then the little sissy ran. I mean she hid behind the matron's skirts. It's a damn good thing. I mean I was mad would have spanked the little pickanninny's bottom. But the matron was forbidding; I mean...