Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact one of Garner's able lieutenants. In the House he seldom makes speeches on the floor and often appears at the back of the chamber standing by the hour with his arms on the rail behind the rearmost row of seats, quietly keeping an eye on what is happening, conferring in whispers with colleagues...
Ward's board chairman is Frank Hawley Ward (grandson), who has a keen eye for fossils, seldom sees one whose name and habitat he does not know. President Gamble, onetime Cornell zoologist, got commercial experience in a Chicago biological supply house. The staff numbers 35 employes of whom nine are women...
Although most fraternity pledges survive their initiations with a whole skin, suffering only from jitters induced by mouthing blindfold a human eye (fried egg or oyster) or worms (cold spaghetti), the week after midyear examinations during which most U. S. campuses test their fraternity men is well named Hell Week...
What disturbed the President was what might happen if the tremendous sums of "hot money'' which have poured into the U. S. in the past two years were suddenly pulled out. The Government, said the President, was making studies of "hot money" with an eye to possible measures for control. Last week the Treasury published its first findings, a comprehensive report on capital imports & exports in the 21 months through September. The study will be kept up to date with quarterly supplements, so that authentic figures on foreign capital movements will now be available for the first time...
...tend to look lonely and sallow printed as poetry on a wide-margined page. Not So Deep As a Well includes all of Dorothy Parker's poems except a few that she did not wish reprinted, reveals her expert craftsmanship, the narrow range of her humor, her keen eye for fleecy feminine affectations. It also reveals that her major contribution to U. S. humor has not been such jingles as her celebrated observation that "men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses," but her relentless parodying of those mournful laments on lost love that are the stock...