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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, it is obvious to those who keep their eyes open when walking in Forest Hills that your reporter described the tennis matches on both occasions while reclining in his bathtub or sipping a mint julep in the cloistered halls of some Manhattan bar. The trees which were planted here 20 years ago are doing nicely, thank you, and can be seen readily with the naked eye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 18, 1937 | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...Fawcett Publications to "Captain Billy's" own life. His schooling ended in the grades, was continued in extensive travels and omnivorous reading. In 1932 he divorced red-headed Antoinette Fisher Fawcett who had helped make his Whiz Bang sizzle. She immediately bought the smutty Calgary Eye Opener with her alimony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Funk & Fawcett | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...inventing the character of a handsome young page who acts as Marie's loyal escort, the author furnishes an eye-witness to scenes left out of histories. The page overhears the conversation in which Talleyrand double-crosses Napoleon with the emissaries of Russia and Austria. He and Marie uncover the plot to put Murat on the French throne; as courier to Napoleon in Spain, he sits in on long conversations between Napoleon and his intimates (partly taken from the Emperor's speeches in the Russian campaign, three years after the story's close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Voids | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...cost of the college's food bill has risen fifteen percent. Unless this upward turn ceases and backs down to the norm, the college may find it necessary to increase the rates and also lower the quality. The latter possibility is almost as intolerable as sand in the eye...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOD FOR TALK | 10/15/1937 | See Source »

...stated that Wales kept all his tools in his room at B-31. The other janitor was not quite so convinced that Wales was a likeable chap. "He told me to sit in the chair and have my brains tested, but I didn't like the look in his eye and I didn't like the looks of the machine," this one announced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Electric Chair Is Among Metal Debris Left Behind by Eliot House Graduate | 10/14/1937 | See Source »

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