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Word: earless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the crash, an "earless man" peered over the brim of a nearby gully, fled when hailed. Police rounded up suspicious characters, trapped one ''earless man" who admitted hating railroads but who had an alibi. The search went on, also, for a sot who cursed the railroads in a saloon, finally got so mad he set fire to his cap and threw it at bystanding Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: In Humboldt Canyon | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Girls avoided the young man. He fell desperately in love with one of them, but was afraid to approach her. Naturally, no attractive young woman was going to tie herself for life to an earless young man. He fell to brooding. His devoted mother began to worry about him. She went to Dr. Allan Ragnell, distinguished Stockholm plastic surgeon, and asked him if he could remove her own ears, transplant them to the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mother to Son | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Patagonia was a man's country: a favorite Indian pick-me-up for a hangover was a mixture of raw liver, heart, kidneys and blood of a guanaco (llama-like native antelope). When two men were having a fight, one bit off the other's ear; the earless man got his opponent down, beat him about the face till he swallowed the ear. As indication that not all Patagonian hard cases are yet dead, jailed or retired, Jimmy wrote the Childses after their departure that he was sorry to say that a man Mrs. Childs had danced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hard Case | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

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