Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their blankets in the pine barrens around the CCC camp at Elkridge, Md. The brassy bugle notes of "Assembly" hurried them to the camp's parade ground, where, mounted on a white horse and surrounded by his staff, they found their leader, Major General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, U. S. M. C., retired...
...away with. The natural instinct for competion, the desire to gain recognition for the House should be more potent inducements to participation in the inter-House program than the hope of receiving an individual medal. Such trinkets as the jewelers of the Square offer each fall to catch the eye of the callow Freshman have no firmly established place in the life of the Harvard man. They are baubles born to blush unseen, to waste their brilliance in the bureau drawer. As such, they might be disposed with as adjuncts of our inter-House program. Before the custom becomes...
...that was a virtual accusation of snobbery. The University authorities have chosen the first answer, silence; a few days ago we presented what seemed to us to be Yale's theory on the matter; now, stung a little by this most unpleasant of charges, we are tempted by the eye-for-an-eye outlet. We shall try to keep our shirts on, however...
Second in seniority upon the bench is Associate Justice James Clark McReynolds. Him the New Dealers eye with even greater distrust. He was Woodrow Wilson's Attorney General and that President excused him from his Cabinet by appointing him to the Supreme Court in 1914. He has the reputation of doing less work than any other member of the court, of being crustier than most. New Dealers would hate to see him write an opinion on their unemployment insurance...
...surrealist named Peter Blume won first prize ($1,500) at the Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh with his South of Scranton (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week a still abler Parisian surrealist named Salvador Dali arrived in Manhattan with a load of minutely painted canvases to bewilder the eye of logic...