Word: earshot
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...City. Score: Northwestern, 13; Iowa, 6. Fortnight ago, the toe of Myers Clark of Ohio State faltered once against Michigan; last week it ably functioned once against Illinois. Meanwhile, the toe of Frosty Peters of Illinois erred. Result: Ohio State, 7; Illinois, 6. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, well out of earshot, watched the Quantico Marines put some salt Willies from Fort Benning...
...have established chamber music within earshot of the very lobbies of Congress and actually under federal patronage was a feat for no ordinary woman. Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge of Pittsfield. Mass., and Washington is certainly unique. Discerning travelers along the road from bustling Pittsfield to smart Lenox, Mass., cannot have failed to learn that the considerable eminence known as South Mountain, by which they must pass, is mostly Mrs. Coolidge's property; that the spacious house on its summit is hers. The smaller white stone building on the mountain's slope is where, seven years ago, she housed...
...very keenly feel my responsibilities in endeavoring to interpret poetry as Charles Eliot Norton conceived of it. By poetry he meant the spirit present in art, in music, and in all life; not quite out of the sight, not quite out of earshot, but unheard amid the way of the would and the grinding of our own egotisms...
Secretary Mellon of the U. S. Treasury and Chancellor Churchill of the British Exchequer came as near as statesmen ever do to calling one another "Liar!" last week. The Secretary was vacationing on the continent. The Chancellor was busy at London. Neither was within earshot of the other, but, through a series of suave but venomously couched official statements, they exchanged compliments with rough-and-tumble intent...
...might use the telephone. Mr. Thanos heard him give a woman's name. It was evidently a long distance call, but Mr. Thanos, not wishing to appear discourteous, did not listen to the conversation. The stranger talked for 41 minutes. Courteous Thanos polished the glasses out of earshot...