Word: earful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...music may, for all that, have more of a log to stand on so to speak, than disharmony in other branches of art, for only last night an article appeared in a metropolitan newspaper to the effect that music through its new mechanics will strengthen certain muscles in the ear that have become attrophied through disuse--one infers, through listening to pleasant sounds. The Vagabond is not convinced...
...sweating, steaming animals with bloodshot eyes found themselves wanting; fell, pitching heartbroken men onto tough shoulderblades. Only seven horses came to the last hurdle, Bovril III, 100-to-1 shot leading, closely pressed by Keep Cool and ten-year-old favorite Sprig. At this point Sprig lent ear to able Jockey Leader, executed a series of super-equine lunges, crossed the finish line a length ahead of Bovril III, two lengths ahead of Bright's Boy who had come up for third money...
...uncertain virtue of clinking merrily in the rhymes. Some critic might hold that our college bards have no singing in them whatsoever. Perhaps it is more justly put to say that while their contents are rich enough, their throats are seasonably hoarse. I venture, however, that the keen ear of Dean Briggs himself would find pleasure in "He came upon a sunbeam to the fount, Unrippled mirror of that winged romance...
...discover what George III meant by "coast" the Privy Council turned to the first great English dictionary, work of that inspired if pompous king of 18th Century letters, Dr. Samuel Johnson. Once George III encountered the great Doctor in the Royal Library, and very considerately shouted in his ear during a brief audience, knowing him to be deaf. The Privy Council cited the dictionary of Dr. Johnson as defining what George III meant by "coast" as follows: "The edge or margin of land next to the sea [and also], a considerable tract of land bounded by and looking towards...
Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, spoke, last week, for the ear of Benito Mussolini while addressing a gathering of priests: "All forms of society should be founded on the divine precept. Man is not and never can be a means, he is the end-not of course the ultimate, supreme end which is God-but in the creation, man is really the end and centre about which everything is organized. Therefore neither the concepts of race nor those of the State or nation should supersede that...