Word: eared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood's Adrian, the golden-haired diva looked like the late Jean Harlow in her prime. And when she sang her program of high-powered arias in the grand manner, the greatest singer-actress of her day proved that she could still be almost as easy on the ear...
...right about the Colonel. That afternoon lean President Robert McLean adjourned the A.P. meeting. Colonel McCormick, standing by the microphone with his spectacles dangling from one ear, promptly boomed: "The meeting will come to order!" A.P. members, now sitting in carefully prearranged rump session, winked at each other. The unpurified Colonel then put forward a resolution that the A.P. itself did not want to endorse officially: urging Congress to put press associations beyond the reach of antitrust laws...
Satchmo arrived with one of the biggest (19 pieces), brassiest, and worst bands he ever had-a kind of unintentional satire on everything wrong with big bands: saxophonists who stood up and writhed as they played; a brass section with a nose for noise rather than an ear for melody. He opened last week at "The Aquarium," a gaudily mirrored Broadway seafood restaurant stampeded nightly by tourists and servicemen, who lined up three deep...
Winston Churchill is not the only statesman who gets away from it all by painting pictures. Many a hoarse U.S. Senator and Representative has spent his weekends in ear-ringing silence, imposing, with the mere motion of a paintbrush, his will upon unresisting canvas. Last week some 80 such paintings and sculptures (plus a few by wives, secretaries and friends) were unveiled in Washington's Congressional Club...
Ultrasonic Shrimp. As" one means of detecting enemy submarines, the Navy used sonar, a device which bounced off them beams of sound waves too short for reception by the human ear. But in subtropical waters a kind of shrimp interfered: the snapping of their claws made these same "ultrasonic" sounds. Enemy submarines, the Navy feared, might hide behind this interference. As it turned out, "ultrasonic" shrimp did not exist where German U-boats most commonly cruised; but the)' did live in the waters off Japan, and U.S. submarines hid from listening Japanese behind the noise of the shrimps...