Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wind whistled down from the north, when to sit in that cockpit was o wish to be dead, and to go below into the tumbling cabin was like wrestling with the hand of death itself. He mused a bit in the half light of the tin shed, and his eye caught on a splintered piece of the coaming, where a catboat full of roisters, flown with insolence and wine, had rammed him at anchor one moonlight night in Newport harbor. He burned a little, thinking of the language he'd used at them, and then smiled at the recollection...
...Cold weather will lessen the cholera danger and do more good than all the doctors in China!" was the hope all Shanghai voiced. Correspondents were startled to see internes working tirelessly over plague victims who to a layman's eye showed no sign of life whatever, although many thus stricken have been saved. Marveled a newsman who had been out on an ambulance: "They all looked dead...
Sharpest dig at Walter Lippmann was made by Mabel Dodge Luhan, whose Manhattan salon Lippmann frequented as a young man: "Walter is never, never going to lose an eye in a fight. He might lose his glow, but he will never lose an eye...
...started one hot Saturday afternoon when the good people of Chicago were preparing to make the next day, Fourth of July, just as much hotter as possible. Gamins with a malicious glint in their eye tossed firecrackers under the wheels of passing cars. The Baby Giant Panda in the Brookfield Zoo was so scared that he refused the attentions of the trained nurse and pointed his tongue naughtily at his monkey neighbors...
...good-natured epitaph last week: "We liked Mr. Broun and his page, and we claimed for ourselves and our other regular contributors only the right we unquestionably gave to him-free expression of opinion. The irony of Mr. Broun's disapproval was that he and we saw eye to eye on the court proposal-as well as on most other major issues; we differed from him only in believing that it merited debate and that the opposition had a right to be heard. . . . We wish him well but we shall watch his future progress with some misgivings; we suspect...