Word: earing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...However, in practice, an Italian warboat in the Caribbean would hurt U. S. prestige as much as it would hurt Trujillo. For that reason the State Department last week called in the Dominican Republic's Minister to the U. S., Rafael Brache, put a quiet little bee in his ear. Minister Brache sent his Government a long cablegram, flew down to Santo Domingo to amplify it. Last week, before he had arrived, Trujillo set $50,000 bail for Barletta. Barletta's friends began trying to scrape up the $50,000 and for the moment Mussolini put his warboat back...
Enthusiasts like Robert Edmond Jones expect that Becky Sharp will revolutionize the industry as thoroughly as the first talkie, The Jazz Singer (which grossed $3,500,000), did in 1927. Less sanguine observers have suggested cause for doubt. The human ear, which accepted sound in cinema so readily, has been scientifically found to be much less sensitive and hence much less critical than the eye. A wax effigy, much more lifelike than a statue, can still be less impressive, since its effort to achieve reality calls attention to its failure. Hollywood producers, though most of them expect color to arrive...
...gold pieces from the Cocle graves include jewelry, masks, ear rings, helmets, breast ornaments, and plaques. Also in these graves were found gold breastplates embossed with mythological monsters, gold cuffs running in sheets from wrist to elbow, and complex castings of strange anthropomorphic gods...
...slides of dozens of before-&-after faces. Lastly he ran off a colored movie* of an operation to repair a young woman's paralyzed features. The policemen grunted and whistled as they saw Dr. Sheehan inject novocaine and slice the conscious girl's head from eyebrow to ear, nick a rent at the corner of her lips. The girl's chest heaved as Dr. Sheehan's hands pulled her scalp away from the underlying muscles. The hands pushed a blunt pair of scissors under the skin of the girl's cheek, from the upper incision...
...interesting. Katherine, the childless wife, went rushing off to meet her husband, homing from India; twins were common in his family. Arthur's wife put him on a nourishing diet, made him take unaccustomed exercise. Stephen had a horror feminae ever since an impassioned girl had bitten his ear in broad daylight in a Florentine cafe, but he nearly fell an unwilling prey to a legacy-stalking female. Hilary was too settled a spinster to change her ways...