Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have just been struck in the eye by a fearful word in the dramatic column of my last week's copy of TIME, "the weekly news magazine," that counts among its duties that of teaching the dailies their manners. And I am wondering if drama critics are to become corrupted by the plays they are paid to see. This is a word that might be spoken on the stage in so frank and veristic a production as The Front Page, but uttered at a decent dinner table it would impel a Victorian butler to practice on the loose-lipped...
...little intimate conversations as this: "I don't like this pie. Get me one with crust on"*which was retailed in the issue of Dec. 10 lends relish to the reading. Tho somewhat against my will, I have become thoroly an addict. The weekly salad-offering of "inspectoral eye twinkled," "Leader-Curtis ambled down the aisle to shake hands with his ex-rival Robinson," and "The President went home 'skunked' " must go on. Your vitamines of news bits and green-vegetable facts must never be cooked to death or wilted...
...reason of that very fact the full force and authority of law, then one can only sigh and repeat softly the immortal words of Mr. Bumble:* 'If the law supposes that, the law is a ass, a idiot . . . and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience...
Wiping three tears out of one eye, Harry Evans sat down at his desk, in the time-honored office of Life, and wrote, last week, under the caption The Movies, the following wan preamble: "With head uncovered I bow reverently and take my pen in hand to write this column, formerly edited by the dean of all moving picture critics, Robert E. Sherwood...
Someone, talking about Walter P. Chrysler two years ago, said: "The biggest game stays in the deep forest." The reference was to Mr. Chrysler's relative obscurity from the public eye during the years when he was the greatest doctor of sick automobile companies that the industry had ever known. Sweet are the uses of that sort of obscurity. All his life Chrysler has managed to make himself thoroughly well known in quarters where it would do him the most good...