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Word: ears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...phone rang peremptorily in the modest Hollywood home of Mrs. Elsie Thomas. Over 2,450 miles, her daughter's voice spoke raggedly in her ear: "Emory is going to kill us. He has a gun. Talk him out of this awful thing." Emory was on the phone. As she heard her daughter's sobs in the background, Mrs. Thomas begged him, with paralyzed inadequacy: "Please-be a good boy." Her son-in-law's tense voice came back: "It's too late, Mama, it's too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Broken Connection | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...Washington sent one of his slaves from Mount Vernon to fetch the latest copy of his favorite daily newspaper-the Alexandria (Va.) Gazette. When he died, the Gazette ran black, reversed-ruled borders on its columns and a poem which began: "What means the solemn dirge that strikes my ear?" "Light Horse Harry" Lee subscribed to the Gazette; his son Robert E. Lee, was reared on it, and Henry Clay wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: George Washington Read Here | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Devil in the Flesh is a profoundly moving film because it is profoundly honest. With an ear for dialogue as accurate and intimate as a wire recorder in a bedroom, Writers Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost (who also collaborated on Symphonie Pastorale) have provided a script that is at once ruthless, compassionate and quietly penetrating. Working in the same low natural key, Director Claude Autant Lara has produced an extraordinary fluoroscopic effect of life-in-depth. The lovers' moments of clandestine passion (as frank as any that have recently reached the screen), their childish gaiety, their anguish and fears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: French Import | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...Lend An Ear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

MANNERS & MORALS ¶ A 24-year-old artist named Cock van Gent ran an advertisement in a Los Angeles newspaper offering her left ear for sale for $24,000; she explained that she would use the money for living expenses while pursuing her career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 7, 1949 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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