Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Journal of a Crime (Warner). A jealous wife (Ruth Chatterton) shoots her husband's mistress. Thereafter, the husband (Adolphe Menjou) fixes her with a bilious eye, waiting for her to confess. When this happens, she goes mad and he feels sorry. When last seen the couple are on a terrace above the Mediterranean, he a misanthrope and she a crackpot, brooding harmlessly in deckchairs...
Dickens began to write sketches of London life, signed them with the pen-name 'Boz." The sketches were so popular that the proprietors of the Morning Chronicle regarded him with an increasingly kindly eye. One of them, who had three daughters, was glad to bestow his eldest, Catherine, on rising young Journalist Dickens. Publishers Chapman & Hall suggested Dickens write a series of humorous pieces about a club of Cockney sportsmen, to be illustrated by Artist Robert Seymour. After drawing seven pictures Seymour shot himself; Dickens got another'artist (Hablot K. Browne). With the publication of The Posthumous Papers...
...justice. And, what is a great deal more, it has given Gill a chance to spread upon the record, in halting, impeded form, the surface of his ideas and difficulties, and to indicate for intelligent beings that there is a good deal more that does not yet meet the eye...
Miss Shirley Bagley, the Mason and Hamlin prize winner, played the First Piano Concerto of Beethoven. In a white lace gown with red trimmings Miss Bagley played with clarity and ease and also one eye on Herr Doctor Koussevitzky. It is of course early Beethoven but there is more virile stuff here than the reading of last evening ever allowed us to imagine; after all, it was written in the period of the Pathetique Sonata. And for the Sibelius' Second Symphony the writer has nothing but admiration for this full-blooded expression of lyric and dramatic poetry of music. There...
...local affair. The only other country that might be interested would be China, who might strike Japan if the Russians were winning. United States recognition of Russia will have no influence on the war, although some people say that the United States recognized Russia in order to keep an eye on Japan...