Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mother in dove gray crepe. Soon after high noon, Episcopal Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill of Massachusetts and old Dr. Endicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton School, who married Johnny's parents 33 years ago, joined in performing the ceremony. Leaving the altar, Anne caught Brother James Roosevelt's eye, winked. At the church door Groom Johnny hailed his car like an old-timer (see cut). The guests trooped after, to the Nahant Tennis Club. They consumed 500 bottles of imported champagne, and food which Secret Service in the kitchen had made sure was not poisoned. A popular morsel...
...incidents of their romance are pathetically meagre-dances to the music of the camp band, a brief mutual inspection of the moon, a single excursion by canoe to Eagle Rock. Behind these incidents, imprinted with the devastating clarity of a picture-post card, is an animated bird's-eye view of thousands of U. S. summer days at thousands of U. S. Kamp Kare-Frees -the crude japeries of the camp's recreational director, the oily friendliness of the proprietor, the wreckage caused by a thunderstorm on the night of a Japanese lantern fiesta, the iron insistence with...
...reasons for John Thrifty. He operated a 3d. & 6d. chain by that name for several years but abandoned it in 1930. Last week, John Thrifty returned to life in a maroon and cream shop on Oxford Street. Little Mr. Selfridge (5 ft. 5½ in.) will keep an eye on it from his mahogany desk in his big store across the street...
Alexander Efron is a strapping White Russian with an appraising eye and a voice as smooth as cream. He was a cadet in the Russian revolution, defended the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg (he never thinks of it as Leningrad), got across the Finnish border with a band of smugglers. Later in Berlin, he traded on the stock exchange, imported Czechoslovak cigaret papers, made a huge success selling Eskimo Pies. Then he went to Brooklyn and entered banking. In 1929, he started in National Safety Bank & Trust Co., rose like spring sap to vice president. Whereupon he invented the CheckMaster...
...passenger announced she would pay $500 to have the captain beaten up. The assistant cook discovered she was pregnant and headed upriver by dog team. The chief engineer left for the Nome gold fields, and on Christmas, after gifts had been exchanged, the mate blacked a steward's eye, whereupon another steward stabbed the one whose eye was blacked. The captain tried to choke the mate; the crew refused to work; the general manager fired the captain and, when the Yukoner finally reached Dawson next summer, the crew-learned that the gold rush had shifted to Nome...