Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even believe that in the course of countless ages the two human eyes will come closer and closer together, the bridge of the nose will further diminish and sink (just as the animal snout, ' man's line of descent, has been doing for aeons of time) and finally that man's two eyes will again become one-just one large, central, cyclopean eye. It is likely that the merely servient (left) eye will shrink away (as the pineal eye has already done) so that the right eye will become the cyclopean. Certain it is that the left...
...distant centuries or millenaries man will be a Cyclops, a Polyphemus, a being with one eye only. That eye, however, will not be situated in the centre of the forehead. It will stand instead in the centre of the face. The forehead will be much higher and the face below-the-forehead much shorter, and, at the horizontal boundary between the two, in the centre of that boundary, the spot where now the bridge of the nose appears, there will stand the one great eye...
...There's a Lucky Guy." The camera approaches a street singer in an alley in Paris, then several other malcontents who eye their compatriots enviously, and finally Francois who carries a sign on his chest advertising his employer, Professor Gaston Bibi, who can patch up marital troubles. Francois is looking at a guide from the Prias Tours Company; he longs to be in that man's place. He is standing before the great Mr. Prias begging for a position; he leaves with the slight consolation that he may hear from the firm when it has an opening. Before he realizes...
Shortly after Senator Huey P. Long got a black eye for committing a nuisance in the Sands Point (L. I.) Bath Club washroom and invited the Roosevelt Administration to "go to hell" before the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Milwaukee, a Women's Committee of Louisiana, composed mostly of New Orleans socialites and headed by Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond, sat down to write a telegram. It was addressed to the five members of the moribund Senate committee assigned to investigate the malodorous election of John Holmes Overton, Long henchman, to the Senate. Mrs. Hammond, sister...
...Elizabeth Barrett's first love. Highest in her affections before Browning's appearance and his rival even for a short time after it was her spaniel Flush. Perhaps to show that of the making of biographies there is no end, perhaps because such a dog's-eye-view of human romance appealed to her originality, Virginia Woolf has written a vignette in which both Flush and his invalid mistress are brought touchingly to life. If at times Flush seems more Woolf than spaniel, his biographer smilingly admits that "there are very few authorities" for so circumstantial...