Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inspectorial eye twinkled almost as brightly as the diamond clasp on Mrs. Herter's triple strand of pearls. The declaration showed that the Herters had prudently limited their foreign purchases to exactly the amount-$200 worth-which they could bring in free. The inspectors smiled, perhaps to congratulate onetime Collector Edwards upon having such modest, honest friends, and began looking into Herter trunks in a way that promised to be pleasantly perfunctory...
...that 12,000,000 Chinese seem likely to die of famine before next Spring, most citizens of the U. S. confidently left the whole ghastly and appalling problem to the Red Cross. If they thought about it at all, they saw in their minds' eye long lines of Chinafolk, gratefully receiving huge bowls of steaming soup from white clad, starry-eyed young Red Cross nurses. Rude therefore was the shock received by many contributors to the American Red Cross last week, when that organization's executive head, Judge John Barton Payne, made clear that the American Red Cross...
Mother Stoner, too, organizer of the World League for the Promotion of Genius,! had something to say: "Poor girl! It is a terrible thing to be in the public eye as a so-called prodigy. No one who has any sense wants to be appearing in the papers...
Married. Mrs. Elizabeth Baker Ritchie, onetime wife of Gov. Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland; to Dr. Francis I. Proctor; Boston eye specialist; in Santa Fe, N. Mex. So circumspectly was Mrs. Ritchie's divorce obtained in 1916 that many Maryland voters are unaware that Gov. Ritchie has ever been married...
...South Shetlands), where Explorer Sir George Hubert Wilkins, a fortnight ago, made tests for his South Polar flight (TIME, Dec. 3). The Wilkins Expedition is rather a tour de force, another example of intrepidity. Of necessity a swift affair, its scientific observations can be only bird's-eye...