Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extent to which she is superior to her material, Comedienne Lillie rates second to none. Whether she is impersonating a British gentlewoman, an Alpinist, a geisha, a barmaid or a star-crossed lover in a railway station, she never fails to convey by a twinkle in her eye, a snicker, a gesture, that she is enjoying quite as much as the audience the fool she is making of herself...
Based on the highly debatable theory that the Celtic character is the most charming and the most comical of human phenomena, His Family Tree is principally a frame for James Barton's elaborate embroideries in brogue, blarney, eye-twin-kling and jig-steps. That an obsolete comicstrip narrative is not actually offensive is due to the skill of Joel Sayre and John Twist who adapted it for the screen. Good shot: Barton's skit of a drunk trying to read a newspaper which ends when he has rolled it helplessly into a soggy ball...
...better educational programs in the hospitals. We want salaries. We want the security of insurance. In lieu of salaries, we're always told of the educational advantages in hospital interneship, but these aren't provided. Even the hospital libraries are often inadequate. As to insurance, if we lose an eye in the course of our duty, or our life, there's no compensation. There have been actual cases where an ambulance driver and an ambulance doctor were killed answering calls. The driver's family can collect compensation. The doctor is not covered. . . . We have no protection, alive or dead...
...average eye there is no leading contender on the scene. While logic would indicate that officials must have a solution in mind before announcing the resignation, however, there was no statement forthcoming from either University Hall or the Law School...
...Hygiene Department in their offices in the Hygiene Building, in dormitories, at Dillon Field House, and elsewhere about the University, and includes bed and board for two weeks if illness occurs, in a ward of the Infirmary. Charges are made for special services such as X-rays, dental and eye service, etc. Because a man happens to be registered as a student at Harvard and pays a medical fee of $10.00, this does not mean that the University obligates itself to meet expenses incurred by serious illness during residence, nor that it should assume exclusive responsibility for the professional care...