Word: earing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensitive ear tired of being buttered with effete Oxfordese, Professor Lloyd James, linguistic adviser to British Broadcasting Corp., recommended that the BBC's radio talkers copy the diction of Franklin D. Roosevelt. "It is disturbing," snorted Professor James, "when a man stands with his back to the 'fah,' and announces that he got some 'tah' on the 'tahs...
Artist Marin's total disbelief in copying nature, on the ground that anyone would rather have a real ear of corn than a painted one, led him ten years ago to a kind of shorthand in which a triangle represented a sail, a jigging line the sea. In his recent work, extremes of this kind have given place to more effective economies: strokes of color and ragged whites which sometimes fail but more often succeed in bringing to life the "fighting" forces of wind, weight, water and light which he feels in landscape. Marin works over each picture with...
...White House switchboard checked up recently, learned that James Roosevelt picked up the telephone 150 times a day. Congressmen who want Administration support for bills, projects, pap, or patronage have learned that the most direct route to the Presidential ear is through Son James, whose long legs carry him across the reception room to his father's office in something less than 30 seconds...
...doctors in the U. S. may call himself a specialist, and some 25,000 do. The American Medical Association takes the word of its members and lists them in the Directory as surgeons, or public health specialists, or obstetricians, sensitively differentiating ophthalmologists (eyes) and otorhinolaryngologists (ear-nose-throat) from ophthalmo-otorhino-laryngologists (eye-ear-nose-throat). Chief criterion for specialists, other than their say-so, has been membership in one of the multitude of learned societies in Canada or the U. S.. such as the American Association of Obstetricians. Gynecologists & Abdominal Surgeons, or the Central Society for Clinical Research...
Although he is deaf in one ear and has difficulty hearing in the dark because he is so used to lip reading, his chief hobby is talk. He finds professors generally poor conversationalists because they are selfconscious...