Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentimentalism, rabid patriotism, and bitter feeling which go into the making of any great war may be seen here, as it were, in a birds-eye view. The means by which people were raised to unprecedented heights of jingoism by master professional, propagandists may be understood in every line. Something new in the world at the time, the posters are simple and direct, but very effective, and even now when war is considered the world's greatest evil, they have a punch which strikes home in a forceful manner...
...Daughters turned in a great flanking job until forced to retire with a banged eye midway in the second period. He returned in the third to snare, Larry Kelly fashion, Foley's flat pass, a sensational play...
Waxing Roth, Sage sagaciously says, between bites of a Hershey Barr, keep your eye on the Cornell band, watch Harvard's forward passes, and read the scoreboard: 27-14. Dartmouth 21 - Princeton 14; Penn 14 - Yale...
...characters in the past decade have given the American public greater enjoyment (and a more distorted idea of the United Kingdom) than Bertie Wooster, and in Mr. Wodehouse's latest opus, his wealthy, good-natured, irresponsible hero returns, funnier than ever but with a new glint in the Wooster eye...
...trigger, Cartier-Bresson has snapped unforgettable, revelatory pictures of commonplace and sub-commonplace scenes, from bare French cafe tables to Mexicans with their pants down. Closest to him among U. S. photographers is a 35-year-old ex-St. Louisan with an inquiring nose and an unobtrusive but exacting eye. Walker Evans began with simple equipment ten years ago, mostly influenced by Matthew Brady's Civil War photographs and by the movies of Von Stroheim and Vertov. This week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art published American Photographs, a book of 87 pictures by Evans, and honored...