Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of congregations. The owner of the Boston Laundry had neglected to turn off his gas iron the eve of Yom Kippur, and, pious, would not approach his place of livelihood on the holy Day of Atonement when Jews may do no labor. ¶ In Brooklyn, also, Yom Kippur Eye, 14 scoundrels, instead of attending synagog services, diced for money. Indignant neighbors informed police, who arrested the dicers. In court Yom Kippur, the judge sentenced all 14 to attend schul (synagog...
...grey horse and a wasp who lived in the attic and was the largest apple-owning wasp in the county. Down the valley, in Wayne, there lived Prissy Deakan who had, the summer before, put up no less than twelve dozen jars of jelly. She, Metabel felt, had an eye for Joseph; she would have liked to change him over and make a somebody...
...prayer for him whose eye has spanned...
Then came the tacit admission in advertising form that the millions who pay a dime to hang on an enameled strap might like to cast their eyes upward and see the attractions of the current number. The man in the street noticed that the magazines which he had hitherto correctly stigmatized as highbrow now contained opinions of dominant people on controversial matters. The articles had a pleasant downrightness as different from the style of the newspaper editorial writer as a dopester's diagnosis before a fight is unrecognizable twenty-four hours later in the same dopester turned raconteur. The magazine...
...high hopes and those of his parents centred upon his future cannot be understood except by those who have experienced it. When that loss comes the sun is darkened, and from brightness the future turns to gloom. The map of life is changed in the twinkling of an eye. To a mother it seems hardly worth the living...