Word: ears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern European history textbook (A Century of Revolution) over which she spent two years, from which she gained much useful writing practice. With her second published novel (The Constant Nymph, 1924) she became a bestseller. Very English-looking, with dark hair parted in the middle and ending in ear-protecting buns, with a head that rises to a point and sinks to chinlessness, Margaret Kennedy's face is not as attractive as her writing; but you can tell by her eyes that she is intelligent, humorous, keen. Other books: The Ladies of Lyndon, A Long Weekend...
Before he knew what had happened, Mr. Leavitt found himself holding a gunny sack and into his ear a voice ? he thought it was Cliff Dailey's ? was urgently whispering: "Quick! Get rid of this! Out the back...
October is round-up time for the Indians. As the Apaches drove in their herds from the summer grazing, a white cattle-buyer appeared on the reservation. He sat around small fires with them at night, gossiped with the herdsmen in English, kept an ear tuned for mutterings in the native tongue which he gave no indication of understanding. Having heard all he wanted, last week Federal Agent J. A. Street doffed his disguise, went to one Golney Seymour, 21-year-old tribesman, accused him of the murder. Retaining the traditional calm of his fathers, Apache Seymour confessed that...
...gift tax, to redistribute "superfluous wealth." He also plainly indicated that to provide more work he would agitate the six-hour day for workers in the transportation field, an industry in which the Government largely controls working conditions. The Federation has more than one way of gaining the ear of Congress: by workers' petitions, through Labor's Cabinet representative, by the personal lobbying among legislators and high executives of President Green and his Washington staff...
...Government, considering Capone's ownership of gambling houses proved, set out to show how he had spent the returns, holding that large expenditures would prove the existence of a taxable income. While Snorkey dug a stubby forefinger into his right ear, letters were read from Lawrence P. Mattingly, Washington income tax attorney retained by Capone in 1930, to show that Capone offered to compromise with the Government and pay a delinquent tax on $226,000 for the years 1926-29. Capone, the letters showed, got one-sixth of the income from his syndicate's operations. As the letters were read...