Word: earful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the next crashing sound would come from the Treasury's income-tax investigation of Indiana's famed Two-Per-Cent Club. One U. S. magazine after another searingly profiled Mr. McNutt, as with blowtorches. Dry-tongued Alva Johnston smilingly cut Mr. McNutt's throat from ear to ear in last week's Saturday Evening Post...
Since then, dainty little Conchita has learned the suertes (maneuvers) of the matador, has killed 62 bulls, both as matadora and rejoneadora. On her wrist she wears a charm bracelet, dangling 16 gold bull's ears, presented to her by Manager Da Camara-one for each fight in which she was awarded the bull's ear (for an expert killing...
Southern speech was less well liked than that of Boston but more easily guessed. But the listeners had practically no luck in trying to tell one Southern dialect from another. Nevertheless there are distinct regional differences in Southern accent, apparent to a trained ear. A Virginian pronounces ou sounds with a quick upward-looping inflection, so that "out" sounds like "a-oot." A North Carolinian may leave out the r's in "carry," but he puts a heavy r in certain other words. He says "Yes urr no" instead of "Yes uh no," as most Southerners would...
...must" on some 50% of Great Britain's 9,000,000 licensed radio sets. He disparages British war aims, takes precise potshots at slum conditions, colonial policies, commiserates with war-discomforted Britons at home. As the Socialist Forward recently warned: "He blandly takes the British public by the ear and turns its startled gaze on the examples of incompetence and even criminal injustice of our politicians," singling out facts which "a smug press has succeeded in keeping out of the headlines...
...Union of Fascists in 1933. He became Mosley's speechifying director of propaganda. In 1937, he was kicked out, formed Britain's National Socialist League. As a memento of one Fascist brawl in Great Britain, Joyce carries the scar of a razor slash from mouth to right ear. The British Catholic Herald, after considerable inquiry among Joyce's former associates, stated flatly: "Lord Haw-Haw is William Joyce." The Herald further reported that Joyce had been brought up a Catholic, but that he has since been "entirely dominated by his anti-Semitic passion...