Word: earing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Runners. Of more importance than office to Mr. McAdoo, however, was his chance to command the ear of the man who may next occupy the White House. Every President gathers about him a little group of party insiders who may be said to "run" him. He heeds their advice, follows their suggestions. President Harding was "run" by Secretary of State Hughes, Attorney General Daugherty, Interior Secretary Fall and Mrs. Harding. The real powers in the Coolidge administration were Massachusetts' Senator Butler, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and Speaker of the House Longworth. President Hoover's ear is wide open...
...Tanaka, former Minister of the Imperial Household who suddenly emerged from retirement and announced that unless the present Government did not immediately adopt measures to allay unemployment and save poor Japanese citizens from starvation, he would cut open his 90-year-old belly in protest to the Emperor's Ear, Elder Statesman Prince Kimmochi Saonji...
David A. Murphy, lawyer for Kansas City's St. Joseph's and St. Mary's hospitals, leaped at Mr. Shannon's other ear: "If the Government desires to make all ex-service men public charges, it should care for them in private hospitals instead of entering into an orgy of construction of veterans' hospitals. Idle beds in private hospitals numbered 119,340 in 1930. Of course, one of the causes for these idle beds is Federal competition...
...escape with surprising ease to the river. No credible picture of modern China, Roar of the Dragon is fair melodrama. White men and women maintain copybook virtues in the unspeakable shadow of Mongol bloodlust. Typical dialog: "You don't know Voronsky." "Only casually; I just bit his ear...
HOME Is THE SAILOR?Ruth Blodgett?Ear court, Brace ($2). A doctor and a nurse steer their romance clear of the Maine coast rocks...