Word: eared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...auditor for the past four years. He had taken a few notes, clipped some campaign speeches and studded his lapel with a button or two. But he had written no Congressmen, signed no petitions. For the most part, he had only sat and listened, a government auditor with his ear miles off the ground...
Later, in Boston's Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Plastic Surgeon Edgar M. Holmes loosened her tongue (held fast by scar tissue), closed the hole in the roof of her mouth, replaced the bones in the nose by a graft from the hip bone. In a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Holmes reported on the outcome of the case...
...days of rain temporarily forced six workmen to give up hammering back the little white blocks which are falling off the Radcliffe library roof. "Last ear's ice caused rotted covings and gutter damage," said Dawson Blamore, superintendent of Radcliffe buildings and grounds...
Orson Welles has always annoyed some people because of his ability to keep them awake in the theater. Coming to Hollywood from Mars, Welles' first movie, "Citizen Kane," set the film industry on its ear and sent William Randolph Hearst on Mr. Welles. Recognizing that he was Kane, Hearst has since allowed none of his papers to mention Welles and has forbidden at least one studio to touch his work. In a town that is totally dependent on publicity for its survival, such opposition has made it tough for Welles to make the kind of pictures he wants to make...
Summer and Smoke has one very genuine virtue: Margaret Phillips' performance as Alma. Condemned to talk like a book throughout, Miss Phillips reveals an unfailing ear for rhythm, an unfaltering instinct for character...