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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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More attractive, although on the pretty-pretty side, are the girls in Living Magazine Covers. Eye-catching are: 1) Rosita Royce's dance with live doves at the Crystal Palace, which ends in purple shadows and a lightning-quick strip; 2) the Crystal Lassies show, where, one at a time, semi-nude girls do semi-classical dances in a domelike hall of mirrors which reflects their images a thousand times over & over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: As You Enter | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...salutes were as varied as the uniforms. The Nazis gave the Nazi salute; the Army men made a military salute; Life Party members made a tentative gesture similar to that used to catch a waiter's eye; and Premier Count Paul Teleki, chief of the Hungarian Boy Scouts, gave the three-fingered Boy Scout salute. Chief business of the opening session: a speech by Count Teleki in which he announced that Deputies' rights to speak would be curtailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Old Premier, New Salutes | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...immediate date for Danzig's return to the Reich, talked about "German Culture." Many Danzig citizens preferred to spend the hot sunny day at the Baltic beaches, leaving the still Free City to a sudden influx of thousands of Nazi and Polish tourists, who keep a sharp eye on each other's movements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: In Check | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Last week German troops began to pour into the Tatra Mountains near the Polish frontier. Quickly rumors spread that Slovakia (whose autonomy Germany has guaranteed for 25 years) was to be partitioned at once between Hungary and the Third Reich. Poles, keeping a sharp eye on Nazi troops, saw only a flanking threat to Poland in the move, believed that probably Germans were simply fortifying their strategic position (as they have a right to by treaty) for future haggling over Danzig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Czech Jitters | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...begin with it should be pointed out that even Harvard indifference will melt before the eye-filling chorines and showgirls. To a reviewer accustomed to nothing more startling than Radcliffe citizens and Vincent Club members the girls were indeed an ocular tonic. Tall and willowy, each was a tribute to Mr. Brown's excellent taste in such matters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

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