Word: earing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having heard the Committee's Chairman Robert Doughton say in defense of his bill that it might face Presidential veto if the third basket were removed, the House proceeded to cock an appreciative ear when Massachusetts' John McCormack urged that it be removed anyway. When the matter was put to a vote, the House amazingly and resoundingly approved Mr. McCormack's amendment-to empty the third basket by striking it out of the bill -by a vote of 165 to 126. Disconcerted, Mr. Doughton asked for a teller count. This time, as more members appeared from...
Decrees, proclamations, orders followed by scores as Adolf Hitler finally left Linz at 10:45 a.m. Monday in a six-wheeled military automobile, making slowly for Vienna which Nazis hoped they had made safe by locking up hundreds, including the Duke of Windsor's Jewish ear specialist, Professor Heinrich Neumann and Vienna's Aryan Mayor Richard Schmitz. New laws on all sorts of subjects, including complicated economic regulations, were being promulgated by simply reading them over the radio. Frantic Viennese businessmen strained to catch each word. What had been the Austro-German frontier was swept away, thus abolishing...
...Negro prizefight at Key West, Fla. was counting out one of the fighters when a Negro second threw in a towel. Referee Hemingway threw it out. The second jumped into the ring, swung at the referee. Mr. Hemingway gave him a left jab to the chin, twisted his ear. Said Referee Hemingway, "He must have lost his head...
Imitations of trains were given by Paul M. Hollister, who gave all the noises on the observation ear of a train leaving Pennsylvania Station, emerging from the tunnel, and passing a freight train and crossings...
...blame it on the British. "One day in 1916 I had a vision," he says. "I decided to give up being a prince and become a businessman." He handed over his social duties to a younger cousin, and devoted his time to the flea he had in his ear about the British...