Word: earfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course everyone knows that Napoleon's soldiers tried to chip the face of the Sphinx into the likeness of the Corsican. Some of his men chipped once too often at tne lobe of the left ear, which fell off and nearly crushed five of them...
...brass, bucket-holders of brass, seats braced with brass, and ropes of bottle-green plush-the Star Chamber of the new Madison Square Garden, Manhattan-he pushed that fist so violently into the face of Paul Berlenbach that the latter fell down and reclined on his side, head, ear, shoulders, hips and legs. The referee's arm began to rise and fall and a great crowd rose in pandemonium, for it was a fact patent to all that if burly Berlenbach ("the Astoria Assassin") did not get up shortly, Delaney would be the light-heavyweight champion of the world...
...King's youngest son. For a girl in her early teens, Ernestine Sophie has admittedly a remarkable amount of poise, extraordinary insight and understanding. She likewise develops into an excellent shot with the revolver. So she goes to the intriguing little court and sets it upon its ear. The Princess finds two men who love her dearly, besides revolutionary plots and a near-revolution, but all are successfully quelled and at 16 Ernestine becomes Her Majesty. The story is one part Graustark, one part Prisoner of Zenda, and one part original merit. The original merit provides enough good characters...
...which M. Briand, called for the eighth time to be Premier of France, deemed inescapable. The last Herriot Cabinet and two Painlevé Cabinets had fallen because those two leaders had been unable to make the Chamber stomach less bitter pills than that now offered it. All France gave ear, and crowds of fashionable Parisians swarmed in the gallery of the Chamber as M. Briand mounted the tribune...
...grazing the singer's ear, burned him severely. Outraged, he quitted Landlady Hitter's establishment, after a stay of 18 years...