Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sweltering in cassock, alb, chasuble and stole, Father Guerrera looked down at his flock. His eye fell on a cool expanse of bare shoulder and open bosom. "Elida." he roared, "go home and take off that dress...
...weeks before every picture, takes his wife's advice about makeup. She plays in his pictures only when, as in Rothschild, she can appear as his devoted wife. George Arliss's monocle, originally an affectation but now a necessity, has worn deep grooves around his right eye. He has never been known to break one. He gets exercise by walking, followed slowly by his car and chauffeur so that when tired after four miles outbound he can ride home. The clock on his dressing table is 250 years old. He used it in Alexander Hamilton. Most...
...around the world with his wife on the Empress of Britain. When the huge Canadian Pacific liner reached Manila, the publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch had to cancel a speech he was to have made at a newspaper dinner. From his cabin word went forth that his eyes had suddenly failed him. His left eye was reported completely blind, his right one nearly so. In their health, Joseph Pulitzer's sons resemble their father. Anemic Ralph resigned from the World in 1930, a year before it was sold; he wears thick glasses. Herbert, youngest son, wore glasses...
...children, and they mostly under three years old, die of measles. Its chief danger lies in the fact that pneumonia may complicate it; tuberculosis, Bright's disease, heart disease, or serious eye trouble may follow. Last week health authorities were warning parents not to let their children out of bed too soon. In a week or so the pimply rash which appears on the third or fourth day is almost gone and the small patient wants to be up and at play. But that is the dangerous time...
...picture. Physicians bombarded the Health Department with petitions and letters on her behalf. The Mayor made a special inspection trip to her working quarters. But in her small laboratory in a musty building at the end of a musty Manhattan street, Dr. Anna Wessels Williams last week kept her eyes to a microscope as closely as she had for 39 years. In those 39 years, first as bacteriologist, then as assistant director of the New York City Health Department's laboratories, she had become one of her country's foremost bacteriologists, winning many a major battle...