Word: earfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stand up and take it." Buermeyer was unconscious. He felt nothing during ensuing minutes when his assailant kicked, beat, bashed him with a milk bottle, shoved him around the floor with a broomstick, tried to smother him with a dressing gown. He lay so limp, with blood streaming from ear, nose, jaw, forehead and the base of his skull, that Carson was suddenly seized with cold terror...
Rabbits had been used for the tests on animal tissue. A tenth of a second's exposure for a patch of ear-skin had made the patch lose its hair and turn dark. Not for seven weeks did hair reap, pear. Another patch was exposed for a second. A scab formed in a few days, fell off taking the hair with it-and in two weeks a growth of new hair, white instead of grey and thrice as profuse as previously, sprouted...
...bald spot on a rabbit's ear...
...soon after, Quack Coffee set himself up at Davenport as an "eye, ear, nose and throat" specialist and began a new technique of gull-baiting. He bought full page space in newspapers and thereby gold-knuckled editorial prudence. He called himself a specialist and offered to treat "deafness, head noises from nasal catarrh," and only the American Medical Association objected. Such full page advertisements have become his chief means, with his "sucker list," of exploitation.* Quick flipping of newspaper files show that from January to April of this year he used full page spreads in at least the St. Louis...
...gladdened, the ear well titillated at: lolanthe, Sunny, Castles in the Air, Naughty Riquette...