Word: earing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pretending that George Washington had come for a medical examination, Professor Walter Augustus Wells, Washington, D.C. ear-nose-&-throat specialist, worked up a medical case history of the First President. The finished "history" he published last week in Hygeia...
...spring to cheer the Japs as they munch the bored cadavers of stagnant Siberians. In short, the world is walking on its heels; it has a glassy eye and waddles like a duck; instead of the music of the spheres, the snore of nations now regales the public ear, and even the esoteric mouthing of peripatetic anarchists on route to Union Square sound on the senile eardrum of the universe like the hum of beneficent bees to an oldster, drowsing in the hot mid-summer afternoon of life. NEMESIS...
...Professor O. M. W. Sprague and several Reserve Bank officials criticized one or several aspects of the President's plans for the dollar. The House Coinage Committee received Father Coughlin of Detroit with open arms, posed with him for pictures, came member by member and whispered in his ear. and attended in awed silence while he declared...
...place, atmosphere, feeling of the time of day. Each episode turns on an organ of the body, an art and a particular symbol. Thus in the 11th episode (the Sirens), the scene of which is the Concert Room at 4 p. m., the bodily organ represented is the ear; the art, music; the symbol, barmaids; the technique, fuga per canonem (repetition and elaboration of a theme, as in music). Without such foreknowledge, no one could make much of this...
...French etiquet in such political riots only one prisoner, out of a batch of more than 200, was held in jail on the day after arrest. He said he was a U. S. citizen, Joseph Klustik, 20, of Uniontown, Pa. Police held him as a vagrant, lent a sympathetic ear to his protest: "I was just standing there. I didn't hit anybody or do anything...