Word: eared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quixote have either been pieced together by literary archeologists who treat each word as a rare old bone, and with admirable patience assemble them into a dead monster; or have been cribbed by publishers' hacks from French translations, with an eye on the dictionary and an ear to the gallery...
Those receiving a change in title are: Dr. Edwin B. Dunphy, Henry W. Williams Professor of Opthalmology, who becomes Henry W. Williams Professor of Opthalmology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Dr. Merrill C. Sosman, clinical professor of Radiology, who becomes professor of Radiology at the Peter Bent Brgham Hospital...
...boast was not entirely true. As a boy, he worked as a part-time clerk in his father's general store in the Quebec village of Compton (pop. 1,000). Those were the days when Sir Wilfrid Laurier was leader of the Liberal Party. Young Louis lent an ear to all the hot & heavy political talk around the cracker barrel, and was an ardent Laurier Liberal from the start...
...Ear. Scripter Kent added, wistfully: "When I think of that big, listening ear out there, I think how wonderful it would be if some writer could find a formula for giving women the substance and not the shadow of life...
...aside ideas for his third ("Scotch") symphony to fashion a little drawing-room-sized operetta for the happy occasion. It was to be sung by the Mendelssohn daughters, Fanny and Rebecka, two friends of the family, and Fanny's husband, Painter Wilhelm Hensel. Since Hensel had no ear for music, Felix had given him only one note in a trio. When the great day came, wrote one of the more musical friends, Memoirist Eduard Devrient, "[Hensel was] not able to catch the note, though it was blown and whispered to him from every side." Even so, "the work made...