Word: eared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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England thus finds itself in a dilemma which is clearly expressed by the two schools of thought that have been seeking to gain Mr. Baldwin's ear. One group headed by Viscount Cecil insists upon a stronger League as the only means of peace, while others under Lord Lothian see safety in a League that doesn't force anybody...
...feet two inches from the ground) and brave, but no soldier, he served the Revolution in Congress and as Governor of Virginia. When Jefferson was Washington's Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury, and out of their struggles to control Father Washington's ear arose the biparty system. Author Adams admits that Hamilton was the favorite child and that his gospel of Federalism won out, at least temporarily; but swears that Jefferson's liberal precepts and example have been as good an influence on the U. S. as Hamilton's have been...
...presenting these characters, it is little wonder they appear as they do on the screen. Realism doesn't seem to have a place in a college picture. And for this reason college pictures always have been and, I am afraid, always will be designed to please the eye and ear and not provide food for cerebral meditation...
...leaving Geneva for London Foreign Minister Eden had swallowed a bitter pill. The basis of his case against Italy was the use of poison gas against unprotected villages. Most of this evidence was in the hands of the International Red Cross. Somebody, French or Italian, had evidently reached the ear of Swiss Max Huber, president of the International Red Cross, which suddenly refused to present its evidence to the League of Nations' Committee of Thirteen. In a pouring rain Anthony Eden went for a long walk in Geneva's Mon Repos Park, stood for a long while looking...
Well aware of these inducements, Promoter Jacobs had another good reason for cocking an ear to last week's proposal. It came from none other than Jefferson Davis Dickson Jr. of Jackson, Miss, and Paris, France, whose career as a sports promoter long since caused him to be called the "Tex Rickard of Europe." Last week Promoter Dickson arrived in Manhattan on his annual visit to his homeland, promptly proved that his nickname scarcely did his talents justice. As well as talking Promoter Jacobs, long Rickard's right-hand man, into an admiring daze. Promoter Dickson explained...