Word: earful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Snowden had helped the Chancellor to write down his blue sheets of bad news before their cheery hearth in Surrey (see cut). Last week, alert as a mother robin, she perched in the gallery, saw her Philip pop a private word in the Prime Minister's ear, pick up a glass of water,* tilt it against his thin lips, set it down, and begin to speak...
...discontented; it is another name for ambition. Be selfish; don't work for the professors. Be disobedient; do not believe everything you are told. Be lazy and fond of music, books, impracticable flowers and the birds that sing, though there be no ear to hear...
...Salisbury, Md., a cat chased a mouse down a feed trough in which James Dashield's cow was munching. The mouse jumped into the cow's ear. The cow kicked away one side of James Dashield...
...Death plucks my ear and says, 'Live?I am coming...
...Paulsboro, N. J., John Williams, town dogcatcher, resigned for the third time. He had been making as much as $36 per day: $2 for each unlicensed dog he put to death. As proof of each dog caught, John Williams furnished one detached dog-ear. Reason he resigned: the Mayor & Councilmen decided that hereafter a dogtail...