Word: earing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, issue of May 7, p. 72, last column-Bug in an Ear...
...Tokyo Foreign Minister Hirota felt it wise to consult the Emperor's ear, venerable Prince Saionji, last of the Elder Statesmen, before tackling the League's work in China. This time the Hirota words were delivered to the world not through Spokesman Amau but through Rengo, the official news agency. First came a warning to frighten possible investors: "Financial conditions in China are most distressing. Chinese merchants abroad who have been remitting between 300,000,000 and 400,000,000 yuan ($100,000,000 to $133,000,000) a year to help Chinese finances have ceased remittances. Last...
...message to the Chamber of Commerce (see p. 65) the President himself made the point that ''it is time to stop calling 'wolf.' " He continued to turn a polite but unyielding ear to the radical inflation proposals of the silver bloc. More specific, Representative Pettengill told the House that the essentials of the stockmarket control bill dated back 25 years to Charles E. Hughes's proposals when he was Governor of New York. And the President's friend, Raymond Moley, took occasion in an address to the Advertising Club of New York to belittle...
...pear orchards in the state, bought the Medford News, boldly declared himself a candidate for the U. S. Senate against Senator Charles L. McNary, stumped the State in an automobile with California license plates. He failed to carry a single precinct, but his name carried to every Oregon ear. Soon he was buying and selling pears for other growers, paying them more than he promised, making himself the man of the hour. Through his newspaper read with the Bible by small farmers and hillbillies, he led attacks on the Farmers' Exchange Cooperative, the American Legion, State & county officers, circuit...
...though very uncertain do we feel about his life and birth. And his poem Li Sao, the Exile's Grief, stands with the Riad, the Divine Comedy, the Paradise Lost, etc., in spite of its shortness in length. Chinese poetry, like any other poetry, is written primarily for the ear...