Word: earshot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week) : Up Seattle's Queen Anne Hill and into a lavatory in Kinnear Park playground marches Relentless Regan. On the backs of envelopes he pencils two notes: "I can't stand the gaff." "I am crazy." Then Relentless Regan, within earshot of a group of laughing children, pumps a bullet into his brain...
...those members of the Class of 1940 who wish to join a House with a gilded spire, or set of wild Russian bells, Winthrop regrets that it has nothing to offer, other than rooms which overlook all the gilded spires of the town, and which are within earshot of the aforementioned wells. The lack of architectural elegance, however, is more than compensated for the group of congenial undergraduates who live in the two fine Georgian buildings, Gore and Standish Halls. It is generally believed that lack of cerise of mauve colored tower has helped to poster the democratic make...
...marathon of his profession. Riding in a dozen or more six-day races in quick succession every season obliges him to become permanently adjusted to living conditions that include ten picnics a day, sleeping four hours out of 24, mostly in 15-minute catnaps, living, in full view and earshot of the crowds that come to watch the race, in a shelter that looks like a flag-draped motorcycle crate and contains one cot for both members of a team, one shelf for all personal belongings, including axle oil. Six-day bicycle riders find their Spartan circumstances beneficial. Many gain...
...hammer blows of the long promised building boom were at last within earshot as Federal Housing Administration announced that construction in July was 700% ahead of July 1933, that 200,000 dwellings would be constructed this year compared with 75,000 last year...
...Riviera rabble which swept through the streets smashing windows, robbing shops, cutting electric wires and wrecking lampposts to make looting easier in the balmy darkness. As police and steel-helmeted Gardes Mobiles rushed in, they were sniped at from the housetops. Shrieking Communists ran about encouraging everyone within earshot to "Build barricades against the Cossacks...