Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Take down the "Fourth Eclectic" from the shelf, used in grammar schools. Here are ninety selections in prose and poetry. Familiar names catch the eye, Celia Thaxter Lucy Larcom, J. T. Trowbridge, James Buchanan Road, Lowell, Longfellow. Here is a part of the Sermon On the Monat. There is a scene from Tom Brown's Schooldays and again a part of Thomas Bailey Aldrich's Story of a Bad Boy. Here also...
...Harvard who had strong Communist feelings, Cherington pointed out that the Critic's now deal was to be in the form of running the paper as a voice for all who desired to express their opinions. It will be put out on a non-partisan basis with an eye to giving anyone a chance to write for it who has determined convictions and desires to have the public hear about them...
...farming country, around Reading; Lancaster and Bethlehem, passing motorists often goggle at barns with three white circles painted on their sides, wonder what they are for. The three circles, which often have other cabalistic signs inside them, are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch insurance to ward off the evil eye from the cattle within. Like other farming communities, this rich and peaceful land has its dark traditions, its hexerei (witchcraft). Energetic Thames Williamson, author of four dramatic novels about four different sections of the U. S., now publishes what he calls "a last regional novel" about the Pennsylvania Dutch...
Because Mr. Lilley finds it difficult to bathe properly in Adams is no reason for him to look with jaundiced eye upon the distinguished Master of Eliot House, whom we of Eliot House all loyally believe to be a man whose solicitude for the welfare of his charges marks him as the outstanding House Master...
...invaded the precincts of Soldiers Field. If it wasn't enough for Coach Eddie Casey to lose all but six of his Varsity men of last year by graduation or other difficulties, the regular Harvard injury jinx had to open its customary season with a terrible sock in the eye...