Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Eleanor Getzendaner, a young wrangler who was riding as a jockey at outlaw tracks and country fairs, saw Elmer Gantry when he was a thoroughbred yearling on a southwestern Nebraska ranch. She tried to buy him, failed be cause the price was too high. She kept her eye on him. Few years later, after he had been wintered outdoors in a poor pasture until he was so thin and rough as to be practically valueless, she was able to buy him for a song. She found him amazingly intelligent and adaptable, soon had him trained as a race...
Less of a glamor girl, more of a conscientious craftswoman, is 1938-model Prima Donna Lotte Lehmann, who last month also published an autobiography.† Though overshadowed in the public eye by the more spectacular Kirsten Flagstad, German-born Soprano Lehmann has, for five years, been rated tops by Metropolitan opera connoisseurs...
Turning back, Vag found all attention centered on a match cover which the Master was holding out. Yes, yes, murmured the Red Pepper with a reminiscent gleam in his eye. He had been there, too. Vag strained his neck a little toward the matches. With a little more effort he might have caught a glimpse but he couldn't stretch his neck all over the table. He would soon be looking like a giraffe...
...happening. He was being taken right out of the play like a Harvard end! Decoyed to the right, cross-blocked when he turned back toward the left, mousetrapped by the Master, he was missing the ball carried consistently and the game was nearly over. These union gals had their eye on the clock and the ice cream was going fast. Vag knew he had to smash up this interference and smash it fast. Suddenly he lashed out: "What do you think, Professor..." But Vag's question was smothered in the scraping of chairs. The head table had risen...
...juggled the not yet dry pigskin menacingly. Now it was Warner's turn to beef. "Nothing in the rules," repeated Thorp. The Indians finally saw the light, turned their jerseys inside out, and a regular football was use. Thorp admitted, though, that you always had to keep a weather eye on the Indians...