Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rosebud peeping from his buttonhole. The thing was urbanely and genuinely done. "I am of no party," smiled the Grand Duke, and presently charmed his guests by chatting not only of himself and Russia but about the two other Romanov grand dukes who were most in the public eye, last week: 1) The Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch, onetime Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armies on the Western Front (1914-15) and brother-in-law of Queen Elena of Italy, who lay in a dying condition last week at Nice; and 2) The Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovitch, grandson...
...flex their ears, Dolores Del Rio has awed nations of cinema-seers with her eyebrows. A bear-tamer, now, she twitches scorn for gentlemanly suitors, then pretends fury at Jorga, big brigand who beats her and cuts off her hair; at last a swift yet languid twitch of both eye brows together indicates her subjection...
...Byron Cassius Goss, onetime lieutenant colonel with the Chemical War Service, now president of the Lake Erie Chemical Co., Cleveland. Said Dr. Jones to the Chicagoans: "I can take this fountain pen gun, discharge it at a man 20 feet away and in the twinkling of an eye he will be blinded for half an hour. I could discharge this large gun and blind everybody in this large ballroom in the fraction of a second...
...human eye could...
Applicants were Otto Kourim, 28, and his wife, Helen, 22, than whom no two persons could benefit more greatly from a discussion of birth control-always accepting the fact that birth control is, in the Eye of State and the Eye of Church, a deadly sin.* Mr. & Mrs. Kourim have been married five years. In three of those years, they had three children. Mr. Kourim's salary has been $24 a week. They had many things to quarrel over. Six months ago, they began to live separately. Both sought divorce on charges of cruelty and neglect...