Word: earshot
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...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...
...almost every sport there is someone whose nickname is "Wild Bill." "Wild Bill" Cummings got his from his father who was a racetrack driver from 1907 to 1921. Young Cummings was born within earshot of the Indianapolis Speedway, learned to distinguish Barney Oldfield's car by its sound, promised his mother that some day he would win the 500-mile race. He gathered speed slowly, first as a Western Union messenger boy, later as a taxidriver. When he was 16, he began driving in motorcycle races, graduated to automobiles two years later. He finished fifth in the 500-mile...
...whistle or even lift their voices in song (to be polite) whenever they leave a class. Perhaps it is a song of rejoicing or merely an expression of well being but in any case the result is apt to be distressing to anyone unfortunate enough to be within earshot...
After a few words of greeting, Dictator Mussolini grabbed the edge of the skiff which teetered dangerously as he pulled himself aboard, sat down sopping at the tiller while Chancellor Dollfuss rowed the skiff out of earshot of plebeian bathers. During their rowboat conference the two statesmen undoubtedly discussed: 1) the Italian-Austrian-Hungarian trade pact negotiated by Il Duce and Premier Julius Gömbös in Rome (TIME, Aug. 7); 2) the fact that anti-Dollfuss propaganda was again being broadcast to Austria from German radio stations last week, despite the Hitler Government's assurance...
...nomination to be U. S. Ambassador. This one-time grocery boy had early hopped the Roosevelt bandwagon but failed to carry Massachusetts for his candidate in the presidential primary. He squeezed into the Chicago convention on a Puerto Rico proxy, campaigned lustily for the party nominee out of earshot of his own State. For his services he expected nothing less than a seat in the Cabinet. When he did not get that, he picked out Rome and the U. S. Ambassadorship there as his reward. Last month after a call at the White House he gleefully anticipated: "I can imagine...