Word: eared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected Congress Chairman Hess to be named Vice Realmleader of all Germany, for no man is closer to psychic Adolf Hitler. The session opened with a proclamation from the Realmleader. He did not read it. left that to a henchman, sat with arms folded, once scratched vigorously behind his ear...
...which lacks the cooling facilities of his regular office, was at work on more measures, fallible in origin but divine in purpose. NRA make-over took much of his time. General Johnson had gone off to Bethany Beach, Del. for a two-week rest and left the President's ear open to Donald Richberg and Madam Secretary Perkins. So significant did newshawks deem the situation that some reported the General's resignation while others telephoned to Bethany Beach to ask him whether he had had a break with his associates...
...full between two trains, a moment of silence in the traffic, and a wayfarer cocked an incredulous ear to catch the faint strains of Gregorian chant coming from under the bridge...
...Vatican City last week persons who had seen Extase in Venice carried complaints which reached even the ear of Pope Pius XI at his summer retreat in the Alban Hills. Next day the Papal news-organ, L'Osservatore Romano, flayed the goings-on in Venice, deplored the failure of Little Women to prove as popular as Extase, thundered particular displeasure at the loud booing in Venice of a dull French film devoted to exhibiting the beauties of cathedrals...
Arthur Mullen, Democratic boss of Nebraska, had traveled to meet Mr. Roosevelt in the Rockies and put that quotation in his ear. For the eloquent Congressman was Nebraska's Edward R. Burke and the President was giving him a backhanded boost to capture Nebraska's Democratic nomination for Senator...