Word: earing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FLOATING REPUBLIC-G. E. Manwaring and Bonamy Dobree-Ear court, Brace...
...Josephus' wave curled to its crest. Reading over the new edition of his famed book, the Jewish War, gazing at his bust in Rome's Temple of Peace, where only the greatest writers were immortalized, he could say to himself: "There are seventy-seven who have the ear of the world, and of these I am one." But when he let his adored Egyptian wife wean away their son to Hellenic heathenishness, when he compromised with his religion for the sake of Roman rewards, he would think: "Your Doctor Joseph is a scoundrel...
...farm, his easygoing charm, church-going habits and knowledgeable affection for the soil would soon have admitted him to honorable citizenship. But his wife Ishma's goings-on set tongues wagging, heads shaking. A beauty, intelligent and subversive, she set the neighboring town of Dunmow on its ear, was sure to be found at the storm-centre of all industrial disturbances. Mill-owner Bly Emberson, sanctified by a lifetime of patient subservience to his steel-jacketed wife, fell in love with her. So did his lawyer pal, Derry. Ishma might well have thought she was a fatal woman...
What have endeared M. Besson most to the voters of Le Puy in central France are his hair and his temper. On the Besson skull, hair grows only in two patches above and behind each ear. These strands have been trained to twine like ivy about his polished brow. M. Besson sports a gaudy muffler yards long in winter, and a blue straw hat in summer. His temper is such that he can never see a braided cap, be it on a policeman, railway conductor, doorman or bellboy, without trying to bash...
...truck and trailer of the Gorman Brothers circus rounded a corner in East Orange, N. J., the trailer's cargo, Jap, 50, a gentle, little, four-ton cow elephant, slightly shifted weight. The trailer capsized on Jap, cutting her ear, forelegs and flank. After a few giant trumpetings she lay silently, glowering reproachfully at her keeper, Joseph Zweark. Finally Jap rose, righting the trailer, but she refused to re-enter it. Keeper Zweark subtly led her around the block, casually up to the trailer. Jap sidled off. After two days of wheedling Jap, Keeper Zweark said...