Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with six trunks and seven pieces of hand luggage and the courtesy of the Port. Mr. Edwards took them in genial tow, commandeered the attention of two inspectors and guided" the party to the section lettered "H." A cheery conversation began as the trunks were unlocked and an inspectorial eye ran over the-Herters' joint declaration...
Pach in his recent book states, "Glancing through the rotogravure supplement of the paper and enjoying the photographs of swimmers, statesmen and stage-dancers, one's eye was caught by the big flag, and one idly read the caption to see whether this was a belated poster from some Y. M. C. A. drive during the recent war, or an invitation to prepare for the next one, in Nicaragua or a place like that, or whether it was not just the advertisement of a firm such as supplies uniforms for military schools and training camps--a masculine pendant...
...think it's a weakness of category. You see, some Careful Greeters don't distinguish between the Cut and the Stare. I do. It may be splitting hairs, but I think there is a place for the Cut, the simple Stare, the Stare with modified eye-roll, and the Stare with lip movement. So that while I have sought variety, others have been content to remain in the simpler paradigms of greeting, and still use the common, or old-fashioned Stare on all occasions...
...outlined by Governor Brewster-with such joyous phrases as "in the twinkling of an eye" and "like the house that Jack built"-the job reserve is to consist of some three billion dollars worth of public construction projects on paper. Getting the projects off paper, translating them at judicious moments into sweat-producing, belly-filling, back-covering jobs for labor, and into cash-registering orders for business will depend upon the extent to which federal, state and municipal legislative bodies and officers can be persuaded and helped to "cooperate" (Hoover's favorite word). Also, patience and discretion will...
Fisk and his partner-Jay Gould of the dark, calculating eye-were apt pupils, useful aides in Drew's grim wrangle with Commodore Vanderbilt. Between them they trimmed the old war-horse in the Erie Railroad deal, and escaped melodramatically across the river (state line) with six millions of his greenbacks in a little black bag. When Drew thereupon double-crossed his juniors in a dicker with the commodore, Fisk and Gould cut loose upon an independent career of buying railroads, Tammany judges, and gold. On the famous Black Friday, 49 years ago, they cornered gold in a grand...