Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Girl Trouble. In Palo Alto, Calif., 100-lb. Mrs. Velma O'Day, angered by policemen who were questioning her, sent three to the hospital by kicking one of them, breaking another's rib, jabbing a cigarette in the third one's eye. In Pittsburgh, Nathaniel Evans won a divorce after he testified that his wife had threatened him (with a souvenir pistol), stabbed him (with a souvenir bayonet), and struck him (with a miniature Statue of Liberty...
Then Senator Bob Taft took to the radio and unlimbered the Republican artillery. With a cold eye on the nation's pocketbook, he riffled through the President's list of proposed legislation. Said Bob Taft: "The Federal Government comes forward again as Santa Claus himself." The whole list of requests, Taft estimated, would run to around $10 billion a year in new expenses. Asked Taft: "Where is this money coming from...
...bloodthirsty witch who flitted through the skazki (fairy tales) of old Russia. She had a false leg fashioned from the polished thighbone of a young boy. She lived in a house that hopped on chicken-footed stilts, around which was an iron fence ornamented with skulls. After dark, the eye sockets of the skulls glowed with fire to light her way. Her chariot was a mortar, which she pushed with a pestle, using her besom to erase her singular track. Innocent children were her favorite fare, but once a girl child, who might have been her dinner, foiled her with...
...eye catcher was the custom-built $30,600 Sport Fisherman of Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., with red-leather "fighting" and swordfish chairs, and a built-in cocktail bar. But the crowd pleasers were the mass production models like M. M. Davis & Son's 21-ft. Cruis-Along ($2,440) and Churchward & Co.'s all-steel, all-welded Steelcraft cruisers, priced from...
...major achievement is that Robert Gibbons makes his overdrawn characters credible. He has a sharp eye for the commonplaces of small-town life, a good ear for common speech, an unsparing fidelity in recording the stupidities and the brutalities of the townspeople. The imagination revealed in his characterizations, the lopsided half-caricatures that still talk a recognizable native language, indicate an emerging talent of the first importance. The defects in the book are consequently all the more glaring...