Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Geepers, look at that grind! He's been glued to that seat ever since I started. His eyes are riveted on the book. It is in one of those gadgets that makes it stand up and has clips to hold the pages. He's got glasses and green eye shades. Why doesn't he wear horse blinder? He takes notes at a page a minute with one hand and turns the pages with the other. But every time he turns a page it gets stuck in the clip and he has knocked the thing over three times...
...question of ink and handwriting. It would, of course, be ridiculous to think of bringing a different color ink to class for each question. So we will direct our attention to the handwriting. It would be too difficult for a student to concentrate on answering a question, keeping an eye on the next man's paper, trying to look innocent, and also changing his handwriting for each question...
...continued in a raptured voice, "one must be really clever. He would do best, perhaps, to follow my few primitive rules. As a "locus operandi" take, for instance, the Charles: an excellent feeding ground. The first trick should be the undulation of the hand, the wink of the old eye, and a broad smile. If you walk the whole length of the bank and repeat these motions without any recognition, immediately change to the "information" method; approach a lass and ask her the whereabouts of Hunt Hall or the Union. That failing, borrow your roommate's car, a police whistle...
Four years ago this month one George Combes, putting on the 18th green of the Dyker Beach Park Municipal Golf Course in Brooklyn, N. Y., was struck in the eye by a ball driven from the fourth tee by one Edward Applestein. Last week, agreeing with Golfer Combes's contention that the City of New York "created a hazardous condition when it placed the fourth tee and the 18th green too close together," a jury awarded him $10,000 of the city's money for the loss of his eye...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news: Maryland's Governor Harry Whinna Nice planned to enter a Manhattan hospital for an operation to remove his right eye, injured in a fall three years...