Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Students of Xenophon quickly recalled that Trebizond is that ancient Hellenic city of Trapezus, the Tableland, where the famed 10,000 halted for rest. Those with a more curious eye for the romantic characters of history recalled Alexius Comnenus, fugitive of the fourth crusade, imaginative, able 22-year-old knight-errant who crowned himself king of the land...
Andre Maurois, able French author (Ariel, Disraeli), is adept at picking representative material-albeit trite-in order to write a book, to father an essay. Deftly, for the New York Times, he took the main points for and against Prohibition, dangled them before the reader's eye, then put them away, told what dangling Prohibition arguments have taught him. Says M. Maurois...
...State Kellogg, whose famed nickname is "Nervous Nelly." At the pier, he exhibited a nervous indecision between taking an elevator to the embarking platform or climbing up the stairs. Finally he climbed. Both Secretary & Mrs. Kellogg not only admonished their porters to be careful but kept a watchful eye upon them, lest they jerk off a worn trunk handle or dent a new suitcase. But Mr. & Mrs. Kellogg did board the Ile de France, and settled down on B-deck in the St. Germaine suite: an apartment decorated in cool, restrained Art Moderne...
...starting the machine the operator adjusts film and shutter so that the frame that is to show red is back of the projecting lens and the red gelatin before the lenses. Then as the picture goes, frames and color shutters follow in unison and so rapidly that to the eye the colored scene parts upon the projection screen appear as a composite, whole, colored moving picture...
...Brooklyn last week, one Harry Kaufmann entered a subway train, sat quietly for a while, began to inspect a Mrs. Anna Prisco directly opposite him. Scorning the naked eye, he swept her with enormous binoculars, peered at her. Mrs. Prisco expressed annoyance. Peerer Kaufmann slapped her. Soon a chivalrous crowd attacked Mr. Kaufmann. Policemen saved him from massacre, jailed...