Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have had two years at college and nine years of secretarial-stenographic experience. I have worked regularly as secretary for the medical director of an insurance company, two sales (engineering) executives, an author, and an engineer; and as substitute secretary for a publisher, psychiatrist, eye specialist, architect and columnist. In addition to my secretarial duties I have in many instances done some employing, assisted in the management of the office and absorbed many of the details, including the handling of a large part of the correspondence without dictation...
Father to Reichsführer Adolf Hitler's thoughts of Drang nach Osten was Charlemagne, who late in the 8th Century had his eye on the throne of the Byzantine Empire. Charlemagne planned an arterial waterway from the North Sea to the Black Sea via the Rhine and the Danube, thence to the Eastern capital, Constantinople. But when his engineers tried to link up the Rhine and the Danube, rains and mountains stymied them...
...voters by addresses. An "R" or a "D" showed which party they were registered under, and those who had already voted were checked off. The season was open for the other Republicans. You started canvassing at one end of the street and looked at the other with a longing eye. The longer the street the more longing the eye...
...until he heard the roaring exhaust of the Limited as it snatched its Pullmans westward. By the time he was in the second grade, his father was unwillingly escorting him each Saturday afternoon to the roundhouse and shops of the railroad where Petit Vag examined everything with the careful eye of a visiting official. The railroaders were alternately amazed, amused, and flattered by his youthful attentions. Then, after an expensive ara of toy electric trains, which were never really realistic enough, Petit Vag was shipped off to prep school, bribed into going chiefly by the fact that it entailed...
After keeping his eye on a red light which determined the length of each tone, Heifetz said, "most of the time it was too long. I hope it was all right...