Word: earful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Armand Tokatyan, tenor, bit Mario Basiola, baritone, on the ear, one evening last week. That was all right, for they were performing Cavalleria Rusticana at the Metropolitan Opera House and biting was in the stage directions. But Tenor Tokatyan bit the ear of Baritone Basiola so thoroughly that first-aid had to be performed at the end of the scene. Thereafter, Tenor Tokatyan explained that the unintended ferocity of his bite was caused by a nail which stuck up from his shoe into his foot...
...notice in a letter from A. Landers, TIME, Oct. 29, page 4, that he asks Alvin G. Anderson in a rather sarcastic way if he has heard that little one: "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear...
Evidently Mr. Landers is a bit behind "TIME" as you will see by examining the enclosed clipping descriptive of just such a purse made out of a sow's ear by the well known chemical engineers, Arthur D. Little, Inc., of Cambridge, Mass...
Making the silk from a sow's ear was a chemical tour de force not at all practical. Artificial silk is made from vegetable matter, cellulose...
This last-named is a convert from musical comedy, and does himself proud on the now seldom silent screen. Joe is known principally for his mouth, the largest in captivity. It extends from ear to ear and part way back again...