Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...embryo of his present business. He still talks of himself as a worker. Every morning when he is at home (he winters in Florida) he crams a golf cap on his balding grey head, drives himself to an E. J. factory, paces briskly down the aisles with a sharp eye out for wasters. He works from 8 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. (his employes work from 7 a. m. to 4 p. m.) and he is invariably abed by 10 p. m. Unschooled, save in how to make and sell $3 & $4 shoes, he put his son, George...
When Addie Belle Barton of Mount Vernon, Ohio was two years old, she was accidentally shot in the eye with a BB gun, became so terrified that she lost her voice for good. At 20, Addie Belle silently conceived and bore an illegitimate child which her mother called Annabelle. Overcome by shame, Addie Belle Barton retreated with Annabelle to a bare bedroom on the first floor of her parents' old frame house. She rarely emerged, often locked the door, kept frisky little Annabelle well hidden from neighbors' prying eyes. Sometimes at night Addie Belle's mother would...
Thus encouraged to be nifty, display men have taxed their wits to captivate the eye-and the other senses-of a hypothetical pedestrian passing with his head down and his own worries in an interval of about ten seconds. On Fifth Avenue this has led to glamor plus novelty. Most noticeable evidence: a change in manikins from a shiny waxwork sisterhood with open-eyed little smiles to papier-máché, wire mesh or carven effigies of the dangling, mask-faced glamor girl...
...command "Pit your cocks," let their birds go. In a split second the cocks were five feet in the air. beak to beak. They lit and leaped again, dancing up & down in a swirl of feathers, the lightning death strokes of their steel gaffs* too quick for the human eye...
When Glenn Frank was made Chairman of a policy committee of the Republican Party, the public justifiably drew the conclusion that at long last glimmerings of liberalism were to be seen in the eye of the Grand Old Party. Recent election of many liberal Republicans apparently confirmed this impression. But around the dinner table just a short time ago there was transacted a bit of business which, if its full implications are realized, will throw real doubt on the proposition that the leopard has changed his spots...