Word: eared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cool and straightforward way in which their representatives who drew up the report have ferreted out and condemned these rampant evils, shows that there exists in this state, at least, a strong public determination to clean up a particularly harmful form of graft. Legislators will have to give ear to this growing voice of discontent, for, like William Lloyd Garrison, "it will be heard...
Magical Wilson. "Men of the German Reichstag," cried Realmleader Hitler, "when in the grey November days of 1918 the curtain was lowered on the bloody tragedy of the Great War ... the views of the President of the United States had reached the ear of the world ... in Fourteen Points! "No people succumbed more completely to the magic power of this fantasy than the Germans. ... We had been dragged into the War, for whose outbreak we were exactly as guiltless, or as guilty, as other peoples. . . . That peace which was intended to be the final stone laid on the cover...
Farnsworth Abroad. Year and a half ago Britain's Parliament, deigning to give ear to the television buzz, appointed a committee to find out what Baird Tele vision Ltd. had to offer. Baird was still puttering with mechanical scanners. Fearing the snorts of the committee, Baird sent a frantic SOS to Philo Farnsworth. That tireless young man sped to England and signed a patent lease agreement, with the result that spectators in London's lofty Crystal Palace viewed a fashion show, a horse show, a boxing match, a Mickey Mouse cartoon, all televised from ten miles away. Television...
When examined carefully, the offers of the Reich government all bear the familiar ear-marks of the proverbial gift-horse. Frankly, all have that hollow ring; the appearance of flimsy subterfuge; the look of ill-disguised bad-faith. France must assume a stern, unyielding attitude at once if she is to preserve her prestige, and retain the support and alliance of the Soviet. Germany must be faced now and beaten in this desperate gamble, for in five or ten years time, she, and not France, will be once more the King-pin on the European alley...
...Irish question, to wit: send the Irish to Holland, the Dutch to Ireland. The Dutch would soon make Ireland a garden. The Irish would soon forget to mend the dikes. Finally he reaches the heart of his cynically expedient philosophy by recalling that he started out as an eye-ear-nose-&-throat man, but soon shifted to psychiatry because "the poor have tonsils, but only the rich have souls...