Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bear it!" wailed Terrorist Mio Kraj. "The click-click of that metal flap gives me no sleep night or day. The eye that peers through that peephole hypnotizes me. It makes it impossible for me to eat or sleep. I can't bear...
...Passchendaele and Vimy Ridge. After the War he joined the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. His professional hockey career started in 1926 when he signed up with the New York Rangers. The next season it nearly ended when, in the playoffs for the Stanley Cup, a flying puck cut his eye. The Rangers' manager, Lester Patrick, playing goal for the first time in his life, finished the game in Chabot's place, helped his team...
...shallow pond stocked with three dozen large trout is the first big feature that greets the eye of the spectator. A charming debutante of the Boston variety vainly trying to manipulate a fly red is the next big feature. After the attempt at fishing has gone on for half an hour with no success, the observer passes on further into the show. Here a varied array of tricycles, skis, nondescript sailboats, equipped with outboard motors, and 22 rifles tend to strengthen the impression of continuity...
...thing no eye could escape was a glittering metallic figure entitled Death, which Sculptor Noguchi would like someone to present to the State of Texas (see cut). From a tall tripod hung a metal cable, at the end of which dangled the contorted body of a lynched Negro...
Sheean was a good reporter almost from the beginning. He cut his eye teeth on New York's tabloid Daily News, went on to Paris, where Henry Wales made him assistant in the European bureau of the Chicago Tribune. Followed some years of chasing political bigwigs from conference to conference in Europe, and then came the break that made Vincent Sheean a name. The break consisted of an interview with Abd-el-Krim, Riff Chieftain who was making things hot in North Africa. Later, after a second interview with Abd-el-Krim, Sheean became known as the "modern Richard...