Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime in Manhattan, 500 members of the United Brewers Industrial Foundation worried about the possible war shortage of hops unless the U. S. modifies its acreage restrictions, deplored "unsocial" conditions in some bars, with an eye on such sleepless adversaries as Mrs. Boole's W.C.T.U., pointed proudly to their good housekeeping in cleaning up dubious dispensaries (resulting in the suspension of 120 licenses in seven States), elected tanned, towering, outdoorsy Carl Baden-hausen president, went home to their breweries...
...Great Britain had thought it wise to enter a war and the monarch was confident of India's support. Then His Excellency the Viceroy put on his pince-nez, looked accusingly at his audience and proceeded to assure His Majesty, on behalf of India, that India saw eye to eye with everything Britain did and was ready with her support...
...years following World War I. He studied the campaigns of 1914-18, emerged with the conclusion that the generals on both sides had bungled fantastically: wasted millions of lives, exhausted their national patrimonies, achieved virtually nothing except to end the war by exhaustion. Other military men raised their eye brows at some of his military teachings, but when Leslie Hore-Belisha became Secretary of State for War in 1937, he began to listen to Captain Liddell Hart's advice, began to mechanize the British Army, improve anti-aircraft defense (Britain had fewer anti-aircraft guns than in 1918 when...
When big-time Swindler Paul Reynard (Basil Rathbone) muffs that million-pound loan in London, his fussy French creditors threaten him with jail. Without batting a basilisk eye or ruffling a hair over his sinister profile, Swindler Paul explains to them that he forged the securities they hold for his prior loans; if they do not lend him 100,000,000 francs more, he will ruin them. This bit of blackmail lands Paul in Devil's Island. To Rio de Janeiro promptly dash Paul's dog-faithful bodyguard Dirk (rough-and-humble Victor McLaglen) to tend bar, Paul...
Editors who give their magazines a fillip of "poetry" do so with a weather eye on the height of their own and their subscribers' brows. Low-brow verse gets published in low-brow magazines and highbrow verse in high-brow magazines. But whether high-or lowbrowed, the "poems" published in magazines all answer, in general, one description. Magazine-verse, like the magazines it appears in, is thoughtfully written to be lightly read. However well done, it makes no more than temporary sense to its readers-to whom it gives only a momentary breather from the real business of their...