Word: earful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sets his serpent on the ground and blows through his pungi. The pungi is a bottle-shaped gourd with two reeds or bamboos inserted. One tube has finger stop-holes and emits a shrill penetrating whine. The other has no holes and gives out a drone. Snakes have no ears. But under their skin they have two primitive ear drums and through those the Indian snake feels the pungi's vibrations. And to them it wags its head like a tremulous dotard, puffing and belching the while...
...chance not to prevent but to immortalize a tragic event (see cut). At last. Lorn started after Riegels but he did not catch the lumbering centre until they reached the four-yard line. He tried to tell Riegels what had happened but though he shouted the words into his ear, Riegels could not hear him in the roar of the crowd. Lorn grabbed his shoulder and pointed back up the field. On the two-yard line, two Georgia Tech tacklers knocked Riegels across his own goal-line but the referee put the ball six inches ahead...
Rhymester Kellaher's inspiration was the following phrase "Citizens of the Republic were put on their metal. . . ." (TIME, Nov. 19). To a TIME writer a reprimand for spelling by ear. To Rhymester Kellaher all credit for putting TIME on its mettle...
Most people suppose that the American Red Cross never turns a deaf ear to the appeals of famished, stricken sufferers. When reports were first current (TIME, Feb. 6 et seq.) that 12,000,000 Chinese seem likely to die of famine before next Spring, most citizens of the U. S. confidently left the whole ghastly and appalling problem to the Red Cross. If they thought about it at all, they saw in their minds' eye long lines of Chinafolk, gratefully receiving huge bowls of steaming soup from white clad, starry-eyed young Red Cross nurses. Rude therefore...
...upset were the people of Massachusetts that they made a law. The next Quaker to land would get one ear lopped off. If he came back, off with the other ear! If yet again he returned, his tongue was to be pierced by a red-hot iron. These provisions failing, however, to deter the Quakers, presently the gibbet was invoked and four Quakers were hanged, one of them a woman...