Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dazed, he looks for an old landmark. What? No "Pill Box"? Only a traffic policeman marks the spot. With filmed eye and tottering limb, he makes for him. But rashly, for the released traffic leaps forth. Down goes the stranger. The officer's arms gyrate madly. A snort of disgust--"Top slow...
...Fencing may hurt the pride, it cannot black the eye. And you can play it with your friends. You box your friend. He hits you on the ear. He says, 'So sorry, I didn't mean--' And you are mad. You say, "Oh, quite all right.' But you hit him on the nose your first chance...
Chamberlain. Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain, sprucely attired, monocle firmly fixed in his right eye, rose to read a document wherein was written the voice of Great Britain and the British Dominions beyond the seas (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa). The voice passed sentence of death on the Protocol for the following reasons...
Your grammatical accuracy is quite likely to strike the eye of the educated...
Your LETTERS afford me many a chuckle. In today's issue, Mar: 9, A. H. Miles writes "broadcasted" is a grammatical error. How could you lose the opportunity to tell him "grammatical error" is quite likely to strike the eye of the educated? A word may be ungrammatical or it may be an error in English, but it could hardly be both grammatical and erroneous...