Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later Ike took the train to New York for short motorcades through Manhattan and a triumphant evening appearance (20,000 inside, 10,000 outside) in Madison Square Garden, two days after Adlai Stevenson. Neat in blue worsted suit, Ike marched into the Garden to an ear-shattering welcome touched off less by the mawkish maneuvers of such professional crowd churners as Walter Winchell and Fred Waring than by the President's own grin and greeting. Ike plugged heartily for Republican Senatorial Candidates Jacob Javits of New York and Prescott Bush of Connecticut, then proudly reviewed G.O.P. accomplishmients during...
...Union. He stood at the foot of the statue and read out a manifesto demanding complete freedom of speech and press, a new Hungarian government, release of political prisoners, and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary. The national flag - minus the Red star and hammer crossed by an ear-of-wheat emblem - was draped around the statue. The national anthem was sung...
...extraordinary ability to carry, as can no other, the inflections and nuances of emotion, from mordant intensity to hushed delicacy. Callas' singing always seems to have a surprise in reserve. With the apparently infinite variety of her vocal inflections, she can keep the listener's ear constantly on edge for a twist of an emotional phrase, constantly delighted by a new and unexpected flick of vocal excitement...
...often eliminate the key facts of the fellow's life at the insistence of lawyers and relatives, or even in the interests of good taste. To correct this defect, Author John (Ten North Frederick) O'Hara has developed an idea that may in future save the public ear from being so painfully chewed by Hollywood's more persistent ego beavers. He has written a "biopic" without a bio. The heroes of this latest vanity film are Lew Brown, Ray Henderson and the late Buddy de Sylva, the well-known Tin Pan Alley team...
...idiom of humor is utterly different from the American; the situation is so utterly crazy that much of the picture's charm is not in its guffaws but in its continuity; the screech of the language seems so utterly preposterous to the untrained ear that we suspect these Italians may be pulling a much bigger joke than we know. According to Casablanca gossip, both of the principals, Maria Fiore and Vincenzo Musolino, are acting professionally for the first time. If so, they could have fooled us. Their humor is broad and foreign, but not obscure...