Word: eared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the Council proposes to do is spend $100,000 or more per year in attempting to persuade U. S. citizens to drink like gentlemen, to acquire "an attitude of individual responsibility toward the use of liquor. Our messages will travel over the airwaves, reach the eye and ear through the screen and stage, and fashion public thought through advertising and other kinds of publicity...
After a Viennese ear & throat specialist had eased a pain in one of his ears. Edward of Wales last week shot a chamois in the Austrian Alps, stuffed the beard in his pocket, departed for Germany to continue his holiday. Meantime. Britons goggled at the latest picture of their future King-Emperor, taken just before he quit the French Riviera...
...such words as: aha, ama, hep, aim, ani, pah. Aha, said Plaintiff Gillman, was either a sunken fence a religious service, or an exclamation. Ama was a wine vessel used in the early Christian Church, also a medical term for "an enlargement of the semicircular canal of the internal ear." Quoted from George Eliot's Daniel Deronda was Hep, a cry of the Crusaders, derived from the Latin for "Jerusalem is destroyed...
...communicated with the State Department by telephone, buttonholed minor officials, made friends with President Calles, effectively neutralized Mexican hostility to the U. S. A nervous man, he had a strange habit of tearing off the corners of papers he read, rolling them in his fingers, putting them in his ear, throwing them on the floor. He worked constantly, with concentration, and with a deepening sense that his advancement was less rapid than his labors should have secured...
Production difficulties for the Gershwin opera have been to teach the Harlem Negroes a Southern accent, to drill by ear those who were unable to read a note, to help some members of the cast decide on names which will look imposing in the program. Great advantage has been the fact that none of the singers was handicapped at the start by having real grand opera ways. The principals, Porgy and Bess, have never sung on the stage before. Bess is one Anne Browne, a product of the Juilliard School of Music. Porgy is Todd Duncan, a Gershwin discovery from...