Word: earful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since Benny Goodman brought a clarinet and thirteen musicians into a stodgy Chicago hotel to open a brief engagement wangled for him by an astute manager. Eight months later he was still packing them in on the same spot, "The Music Goes 'Round" was already out of the public ear for good, and the diluted jazz called swing was just beginning a successful job of artificial respiration on a music business which was on the verge of going down for the third time in the high seas of the depression...
Kansas lately has been restive under isolationist leadership. Governor Ratner, who keeps his ear close to the ground, knows the rumble of a stampede when he hears it approaching. With his speech last week he put himself squarely on the side he thinks will win when isolationism gets its first test in Kansas next year. If all goes as he expects, he may be next in line for sere old Arthur Capper's Senate seat...
...study of history Guglielmo Ferrero had a good training -he began as a criminologist. His first book, The Delinquent Woman, was written in collaboration with Father-in-law Cesare Lombroso, author of the theory that criminals are distinct biologic types with crime written all over their eyes, ears, chins and crania. This theory, now unfashionable, caused acute embarrassment to men with recessive chins and adhesive ear lobes, used to send Novelist Leo Tolstoy (then in his primitive Christian period) into literary tantrums. Historian Ferrero has set off a number of tantrums himself...
What was in the letter? What had been said at that mystic tryst off the rock-bound Coast of Somewhere? While the whole world cupped its ear, the Ministry of Information permitted correspondents to cable that His Britannic Majesty's Prime Minister had refused an option on 600 of the long, three-shilling (60?) Havanas he loves...
...American ear, organized cheering sounds right at football games, wrong at baseball games. Nevertheless, this week will see the first organized cheering section in a major-league ball park: at a Dodger-Giant game at Ebbets Field, 6,000 members of Brooklyn's Knothole Gang (schoolboy fans) will whoop it up for the dear old Dodgers. Cheerleaders: the "Reg'lar Fellers" kids (Puddin'head, Wash Jones, Jimmy Dugan and his dopey cousin Dinky), comic-strip radio characters...