Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proclamation of a "President's Week" by . . . ceremonious Governor Blanton ("The Sphynx") Winship, was considered a political move of the Governor to catch the Presidential eye, did not arouse any enthusiasm among levelheaded Puerto Ricans...
Britain regards the Greek Navy with a protective motherly eye, British officers having trained it, British shipyards having helped build it. Naval officers in London pointed out last week that if the Averoff and Helle should be sunk "the balance of power in the Eastern Mediterranean would pass to Turkey." Just to be sure, three British cruisers and four destroyers were promptly sent to the British island of Cyprus. Greeks in Greece, who know that their deposed King George II is a close friend of King-Emperor George V and a frequent guest at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, suspected...
When Their Majesties arrived in the U. S., so that a cataract might be lifted from King Prajadhipok's left eye, Siamese recalled that the first ancient Oriental power which deigned to sign a treaty with the upstart U. S. was the Government of Siam. Traditionally the Siamese Royal Family have employed U. S. experts from choice, and Siam once had a high official called the Second King whose real name, Siamese insisted, was "Prince George Washington...
Blustering Huey Long is on the front page again. Apparently such events as the washroom black eye will not dampen an unquenchable thirst to be before the public eye. Now the Senator from Louisiana bombastically attacks General Johnson for the benefit of Randolph Hearst's news hawks, and much to the delight of the Reverend Father Coughlin...
...spite of the opinion of Pundit William Lyon Phelps who hailed Author Roy Cory Hutchinson's first book (The Answering Glory) as "a shout of joy," U. S. readers with an eye for good writing were beginning to watch Author Hutchinson closely, called him far & away better than his name-fellow, Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson (If Winter Comes). After reading his second, The Unforgotten Prisoner, even level-headed critics called him better than Galsworthy. But last week, after reading his third, Author Hutchinson's praisers modified their mounting applause, called him better than the late William J. Locke...