Word: earful
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Madison Square Garden, had entered the Walls fortnight ago, just four days before the Rodeo opener. The con section cheered Newcomer Ellis wildly, but he was a mortified spectacle. The horse he drew calmly sidled over to a corner of the arena, refused to budge despite frantic gigging and ear cuffing...
...instead of being filled with sand, they had been filled with plain black dirt. Norway had been lost. In upper-class English drawing rooms they were saying: "England always loses every battle but the last one." Asked about Norway, the chambermaid said: " 'Orrible! 'Orrible! But I 'ear we gave 'em what for: killed millions more of them than they did of ours and that's certain...
...literature begins on courthouse steps, in general stores where men chaw, whittle and tell tales. With a fond ear for briarhopper speech the Tennessee Writers' Project (WPA) gathered 25 well-chawed, well-whittled anecdotes from the Great Smokies to the levees in God Bless the Devil-(University of North Carolina Press; $2). Their themes are lady-killing fiddlers, horse races, knife duels, preachers, hunting dogs, log-cabin adultery, possums, milk snakes, the witch of Red River who chased brave Andy Jackson back to Nashville...
...Vaccine. Like smallpox, influenza, infantile paralysis, etc., measles is a virus disease. It is caused by some organism too small to be seen microscopically. Commonly considered a trifling ailment of childhood, it often brings on ear infections, mastoiditis, bronchopneumonia. Measles can be a serious problem in wartime, for isolated country boys often grow to maturity without getting measles or acquiring natural immunity, and catch it when herded into army camps. Among the U. S. forces in World War I, pneumonia following measles was a common cause of death...
...language. There is Wolfe's constant continental sense of the U. S., which sometimes turns into a Whitmanic bill of particulars. There are the same major characters, all from life, and the same unreality surrounding them. There are the same successes with minor characters, the same fine ear for idiom. There is the same power to create fantastic episodes, like Piggy Logan's inane marionette show, or the pathetic account of the little Jewish lawyer who attempts to flee the Third Reich and gets caught. There is Wolfe's vast, ever-welling pity for all lowly, downcast...