Word: earful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...health. We've had luck with the heifers and a couple of young ones brought $325 apiece last week at a sale. We're prepared for winter-we've opened the silo and it's filled with the whole stalk of corn, ear and all. There's plenty of hay in the barn...
...Lend an Ear (sketches, lyrics & music by Charles Gaynor; produced by William R. Katzell, Franklin Gilbert & William Eythe) blossoms out, after a long, wintry start, into a really gay intimate revue. Hailing from the West Coast, it often has a rough-diamond, loud-check sense of fun about it; and can be strenuously youthful as well as unpolished. But it has the greatest of assets for an intimate revue-a satiric eye and sassy tongue; and when it manages to be deft and daft at once, is thoroughly hilarious...
...Douglas MacArthur's alert military ear, the Communist sweep through China carried an ominous and familiar rumble. Only seven years ago, in Manila, he had seen the gathering storm of Japanese conquest. He appealed for reinforcements which could not be supplied, hopelessly watched the envelopment of the Philippines. Could Japan become a latter-day Bataan...
...Toilers Are Told. Fortnight ago, Rakosi made a major speech before his Communist Party. Hungarian peasants cocked an ear; since the war they had divided up the large farms among themselves (with the blessings of the Communists) and were well pleased. Rakosi's speech jolted them. He deplored the fact that Hungarian agriculture today is "based on the split-up little peasant holdings." He even used the dreaded word "kolkhoz" -collective farm. The peasant press gingerly expressed anxiety...
...whether it will last. Gusty, oldtime Blues Singer Chippie Hill says flatly and hopefully that "It won't last. My 16-month-old niece does it when she drinks beer out of her bottle, and does it better than any of them." To the naked ear its shrill cacophony seems anarchistic; on repeated hearings it becomes clear that the players planned it that way. Duke Ellington, now a disc jockey, has been kind; old Satchmo Louis Armstrong, critical. The feud now raging between partisans of the New Orleans school of jazz, who enjoy their music, and the "progressives...