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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf: "Dear, dear! How queer everything is today. But if I am not myself, who am I? Well, I'm sure I'm not Bismarck, for his hair was bristly and mine falls in a beautiful bang right over my left eye. And I can't be Napoleon, because he retreated from Moscow. . . . Oh, dear! I wish I could get my thoughts straight. Maybe it would help if I could hear the party catechism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grabberwoch Came G | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...implies as great a knowledge of what the public will laugh at as of how to keep it laughing. Kaufman beat all his rivals at comedy and satire because what really concerned him was never the nature of the target, but only the location of the bull's-eye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Past Master | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...middle of the last century were Impressionists, the term itself is primarily indicative of a method rather than a time in the history of painting. An Impressionistic painting is simply one in which bright, practically unfused colors are placed on the canvas in such a manner that the eye of the onlooker, rather than the brush of the artist, mixes the tones and gives them coherence. Perhaps an example would serve to illustrate my point: a barber pole contains stripes of solid, unmixed color; this is the palette. When the pole begins to turn, these colors are fused and mingled...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Harbor to Nain, tiny settlements lie huddled at the foot of towering, rocky cliffs. Several weatherbeaten shacks, a pier or two, boats and nets hung up to dry, comprise the weary picture. Almost no motion is apparent. Everywhere are rocks and mosquitoes and marshes extending as far as the eye can see. And smothering the scene like a heavy blanket is the smell of drying and decaying fish. For it is summer and the people who cling precariously to the shoreline are codfishing for existence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Actor Barton then spat right back in Potter's eye: "If you think you're so good and know just how this role of Jeeter should be played, why don't you come up and play it yourself? Try just three minutes of it if you don't want to go to the trouble of learning the entire part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Three-Minute Man | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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