Word: earful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alertness which flabbergasted as much as it pleased his friends. As Prime Minister the shaggy sheep dog was often lazy, muddling and inept-sometimes disgracefully so. On a public platform during the "Lord's Prayer," he would fiddle with his notes twitch his nose or scratch his ear (instead of praying), and later he would cross one leg over the other and look bored (instead of standing on both feet and joining in "God Save the King"). Indeed as Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin resembled exactly an amiable sheep dog licking his paws, but last week as Leader...
...growing custom a widow of a representative may have his House seat if she wants it. Widow Lee became a candidate. So did Tom Blanton. Fighting a woman did not soften his voice or make him more gentle. With ear-splitting roars, his heels pressed together, his arms flying, he inveighed against the political sentimentalism of voting for a widow, pointed to his own twelve-year record as a lawmaker. He reminded voters that the House, as it always does to a Representative's widow, would vote Mrs. Lee her husband's salary for one year...
...scene is laid in an inn, during an ear-splitting thunderstorm, to which a prattling, sleepy-eyed sage (Actor Cohan) comes for shelter. Subsequent activities, which include robbery, violent quarreling, gunfire, are sometimes burlesqued, sometimes played "straight," never consistently acted. Once Actor Cohan comes down to the footlights and soliloquizes to the effect that everyone in the world is an actor, that he alone is a spectator, that some day he will meet the Great Author. Spectators take this to be in dead earnest, applaud loudly. Sole orthodox comic part is played by Joseph Allen in the role he created...
Hear ye, hear ye, ye men of fat legs and thin legs, of long legs and short legs; harken, ye seekers after maximum comfort and the minimum of swaddling clothes. Give ear, ye who would be dictators of a fashion and dressed in the style of the hour. We announce the "short," as suitable for all Hanover occasions--full dress, informal afternoon wear, morning lounging apparel. Tomorrow...
...shutter opens, allows a beam of light to pass through the disc, shine on a photoelectric cell. The light is transformed into an electric impulse, the impulse into sound. Working on this purely electrical principle the fineness of tone division becomes limited only by the ability of the human ear to perceive...