Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uncomfortably in a "royal" box and nibbled crystallized violets while the press howled at the door. Grace wore a Dior gown and low heels so that she would not be taller than the 5 ft. 6 in. Prince. Later, at the Harwyn Club, Grace nibbled at Rainier's ear, and danced with him until 4 a.m. This week she was off to Hollywood to make a movie with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, leaving her fiancé to wander around the U.S. until time for the spring wedding...
...them interested. We show them the words so they'll want to read." It is also one method of developing a pupil's story sense, of training him to think of a chain of events in proper order. Meanwhile, the teacher also sharpens the eye and the ear. If a student cannot distinguish sounds, if he circles comb when he should have circled cone, he may end up insisting that the President had a hardtack, inviting people to his horse for dinner, and taking his cat along to class when he should have taken a catalogue...
...other, their eleven-year-old daughter Polly and fate-that difficult headwaiter whom they have charmed into giving them the best table. Janice is a healthy model of housewifely efficiency. Tom is a grey flannel suitor of success who has $14,000 a year and the boss's ear to show for his efforts. His boss is a sexurbanite who keeps adding fresh blonde codicils to his own tattered, 30-year-old marriage contract. It is at the bottom of the boss's sunken garden that Tom meets Louise, an exotic fragment of brunette poetry. Over cocktails...
Gauguin's portrait proved prophetic. A few days later. Gauguin returned to find Van Gogh upstairs, unconscious, a bloody bandage wrapped around his head. Van Gogh, in despair at Gauguin's decision to leave Aries, had severed his left ear with a razor, handed it as a gift to the prostitute who had befriended him. Van Gogh recovered to paint some of his greatest works, including one self-portrait with his disfigured head shrouded in bandages. But after two years of living on the borderline of madness, he shot himself...
Open Season. In Norton, Kans., after he had bagged his limit of three pheasants on a hunting trip, Purchasing Agent James Modie. 44, turned to go back to his car, was struck a stunning blow behind the right ear, came to 15 minutes later to discover that he had been dropped by a 3½-lb. cock pheasant, which broke its neck on impact...