Word: eared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Glaring frequently at Lawyer Leibowitz and intoning his words, Judge Callahan spent nearly two hours explaining to the jury how they could find Patterson guilty. When he had finished Lawyer Leibowitz and Attorney General Thomas Knight, the prosecutor, went up to the bench, whispered hastily in his ear. "Oh yes," said the judge, facing the jury. "I overlooked one thing. If you are not satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty as charged, then he ought to be acquitted." Twenty-six hours later came a resounding thump on the brown wooden jury room door. The bailiff...
...Sailor (Warner). When, in this picture, a sailor says to Joe E. Brown. ''I ought to cut your throat from ear to ear," another remarks: "Someone's done it already." This rude allusion to Comedian Brown's appearance should please his admirers. So should his efforts to impress a girl who turns out to be the admiral's daughter; his antics when she takes him home to amuse her father and her fiancé, Brown's lieutenant; his attempt to escape by a trellis, which breaks and lets him fall; his eventual departure...
Since then Mason Day has never been very far from Seton Porter in his busy preparations for the big stampede. Among other things Mr. Day got the ear of President William E. Levis of Owens-Illinois Glass, who bought 40,000 shares of National Distillers for his bottle company. That deal on top of the famed whiskey dividend (one case, pre-prohibition, for each five shares) made Wall Street acutely conscious of National Distillers. In last summer's boom its stock hit a high of $124. Last month National Distillers contributed the first major stock-split...
...Treasury, who at the same time was being ushered out of office without so much as a public acknowledgment of his services. Nor was it a sentimental occasion for Mr. Acheson's friends. Since last March two young advisers have stood close to the President's ear; Lewis Douglas, whom he made Director of the Budget, and Henry Morgenthau Jr. whom he made head of the Farm Credit Administration. Budgeter Douglas, a "hard money" man, was very close to the President as late as last May when Eugene Black was made Governor of the Federal Reserve...
freesia-sweet, Piteous, to eye and ear, as a lamb's bleat...