Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening of Congress were surprised to see a small brown-haired girl, handsome as a magazine cover, pert in plaid jacket, black skirt and yellow hair-ribbon, chasing down the aisles of the House, talking to distinguished members, having her picture taken, carrying messages. She was Gene Cox, 13, eye-apple youngest daughter of Georgia's cantankerous Representative Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Over the protests of Doorkeeper Joe Sinnott, who feared it would "get into the newspapers" and start a rush by other doting parents to have the same done for their girls, Father Cox had Gene sworn...
...Baarova herself, had clouted Goebbels in the Baarova apartment. He did not make an appearance during the late August, visit of Hungarian Regent Nicholas Horthy, and when he made his brief appearance at the Nürnberg Congress in September, he was carrying the unmistakable vestige of a black eye...
...pleased delegates proceeded to trade each other all sorts of useless knowledge. From Harold W. Bentley, managing editor of American Speech, they got a report on names of U. S. towns and cities. Samples: Social Circle, Wide Mouth, Jingo, Sleepy Eye, Matrimony, Hot Coffee. University of Virginia's Professor Atcheson L. Hench delivered a scholarly discourse on the history of the term "stark-naked" (from start-naked, literally: buttocks-naked). Most superbly useless piece of information given to the convention was a paper on The Pronunciation of German Surnames in Potosi, Wisconsin...
...play for the caddy; But when I do, I don't follow through 'Cause my heart belongs to daddy. One night last week as she sang it, light-hearted as ever, the rest of the cast, sentimental as actor folk are, could not bear to meet her eye. For they knew from the papers that that afternoon Mary's father had died at his home in Texas. After the show, chubby, fatherly Victor Moore, accompanied by tubby, motherly Sophie Tucker, went around to Mary's dressing room, gently broke the news, tiptoed out and left...
...Andes dwells the vicuña, an undersized member of the camel family. Fast as the antelope, agile as the chamois, the goatish little vicuña, which lives only at altitudes over 12,000 ft., has to be killed to be captured-otherwise he spits in your eye and runs away...