Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commissioner of Education (John James Tigert) asked questions of his statisticians and made a statement about that sphere of U. S. life upon which he was appointed to keep an eye. Figures...
...Parnasse last week was a painting by a Congo Negro of a Congo Negro in a peculiar posture, nude except for a string of beads and a rope of silver ornaments. Parisian women, profoundly shocked, demanded that the unsightly painting be removed. Police investigated, ousted it from the public eye...
...small boy with a bat and a batting eye who can find someone to pitch to him, will bat for hours, will cry, "Chuck us another! Watch me knock it outa the lot!" Joy is his. Among adults, the same joy is experienced by the woman at a church social whose seamstress has told her just why Mrs. Jiggetywig left her husband; or by the male dinner guest in Sedalia, Mo., who took his vacation under the auspices of Thos. Cook & Son. These, to squeeze the last drop of bliss from omniscience, will hint: "Ask me another!" Two youths lately...
...state legislatures, the republic is being safeguarded from every possible angle; adopting the methods of modern medicine, the eager solons are not content to wait for trouble to appear but plan to nip it in the budnay, in the very seed, before it is visible to the untrained eye. Thus Senator Beaver of Oklahoma would make it illegal in that state to "circulate" biscuits--apparently a quaint native custom--of less than three inches in diameter and one inch in thickness. "The society biscuit," he warns grimly, "in the curse...
...lately harassed wanderer through the academic wasteland of examinations who has a mind for relaxation of intellect and entertainment of the eye and ear, Marilyn Miller in "Sunny" presents great attractions while "Castles in the Air" runs a close second. For those with a desire for a compound of thrills and laughs "The Ghost Train" was especially written...