Word: eyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week U. S. cinemaudiences saw a charmingly enameled Pola, matronly to the points of her double chin, die the remorseful death of fickle Madame Bovary. She was no longer the dashing, fiery Pola of Passion and Gypsy Blood. The 1937 Madame Bovary loves nice things, has a roving eye, a fat medico husband. Her eye gets to roving before her husband has had time to get down to the business of properly neglecting her, and the story, though warranted Aryan, is far from Flaubert...
...Mass., was a homebuilt projector which cost less than $12,000. It was built by able, earnest Frank Korkosz, technician of Springfield's Museum of Natural History. Not dumbbell-shaped but spherical, the Korkosz instrument projects on a 40-ft. (diameter) hemispherical ceiling 7,150 of the naked eye and borderline stars visible in every direction from earth. Astronomers did not quite share Mr. Korkosz' belief that his machine works as well or nearly as well as a Zeiss instrument but they seemed to feel that any reasonably good projector is better than none, and the Springfield public...
...student of evolution, he knows that in so highly evolved an animal as man evolution does not stand still. The species either progresses or degenerates. Since he discerns no improvement since the end of the Glacial Period and since the signs of deterioration are already apparent to his trained eye, he concludes that the present course of man is downhill...
...politely asked to pack up and debark. Only the first twelve who had booked passages would be allowed to sail. The indignant "left behinds" booked on other lines, and at evening the 14,000-ton President Jackson sailed from a deserted dock, demoted, in almost the twinkling of an eye by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, from a liner to a freighter...
...business of planning the composition of an issue, of balancing, and fitting the columns so that they will present an appearance pleasing to the eye, is in itself a task of great magnitude involving precision to the utmost degree. Its difficulty is enhanced by the fact that important articles are often received late in the evening, so that the editor scarcely knows, until the last minute, exactly what will be printed...