Word: eared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lionel Dodson sat down and wrote a letter to a 12-year-old neighbor girl named Joan Lepper. "You will never know how much I love you ... I want you to have my bicycle. . . ." Then he killed himself by putting the muzzle of his .22 caliber rifle to his ear and pulling the trigger. ¶ In Denton, Texas, a 14-year-old Palo Pinto County farm girl named Eva Lee Knoop got into a taxicab, showed the driver a .22 revolver, ordered, "Get out of Texas." He headed for Oklahoma. Hours later, gun still in hand, she told...
...surely he earned a reputation for being on the side of the little people against the interests. In a report on a 1907 telephone strike in Toronto, he sympathetically noted the "physical strain" involved in "long sitting in one position" and the "buzzing and snapping of instruments in the ear...
radio listener lends his ear to a loudmouthed, platitudinous, corn-cackling character who calls himself Senator Claghorn. The "Senator" is a broad burlesque of the worst in Southern statesmen. On the air for less than three months, he is already being mimicked by children at school, businessmen at luncheon clubs, drunks at bars. No one does the routine quite as well as the Senator himself: Fred Allen's announcer, Kenny Delmar...
...window ledge Mrs. Little found a numbed bird and revived it. The bird's name was Margalo. With Stuart it was love at first sight. Later he saved Margalo's life by bravely shooting the family cat in the ear with an arrow. Margalo saved him from a garbage scow into which he had accidentally been dumped. Then Margalo disappeared. Stuart left home quietly, got himself a tiny automobile and went in search of her. And so he drives abruptly out of Author White's slim (131-page) book-one of the most lovable little boys (despite...
...Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's 71st birthday, but he was hardly in a mood for festivities. In his hand as he rose to address an ear-cupping House of Commons was his 5,000-word report on the control of atomic energy, drafted after his recent Washington conference with President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee...