Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jankowitz, 20, CCC worker, chewed the head off a blacksnake for $1. Said he: "I didn't really bite its head off. I mostly pulled it off. The snake was too tough." Worker Jankowitz added the $1 to a fund with which he hopes to pay for an eye operation so he may take a West Point entrance examination...
...parishes 15 miles apart. Devoted to his collie "Shep," his blackened pipe, his comfortable Congress gaiters and his crushed black hat, he refused until last year to accept an automobile from his flock, preferring to ride from parish to parish on a sturdy grey horse. Once, said he, his eye for horseflesh caused him to stop to admire a number of mounts tethered in Huntington. One of the horse-owners asked the way to a bank. That man, said Father Quirk, turned out to be Jesse James. He robbed the bank...
...Southerner reads the morning newspaper because he wants to know about the Society events and the election campaigns, which he regards in somewhat the same light; but he thinks books are suitable only for invalids." With roundabout irony which sometimes straightens into indignation Author Cason casts his dissatisfied eye over the Southern scene, finds it on the whole down-at-heel, lazy, complacent, resigned, ignorant, cynical, exasperating. Southern sensitiveness to criticism he calls "dangerously suggestive of what the psychologists used to call an inferiority complex. ... I cannot escape the conviction that Southerners would have a better chance to find...
...Middlesboro, Ky., passing a graveyard late at night, Slim Jaggers whirled at a rustling noise, saw a big white shape, whipped out a pistol and fired pointblank. The bullet hit a big white tombstone, knocked off a marble chip which flew into Jaggers' eye, blinded...
...General Hugh Johnson had written his code version of one of the rayon-gossamer fables of Oscar Wilde. But readers who were stunned into shocked attention by The Postman Always Rings Twice (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934) may fall under the spell of Author Fessier's glittering eye...