Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week at Manhattan's Morton Galleries, interested visitors stood peering into the insides of six hemispheres a yard in diameter, made of papier mache. Each could be raised or lowered on its stand to fix the spectator's eye in the exact centre, even with the rim. Then by rolling his eyes the gallerygoer could see painted on the inside of the hemisphere everything that had come within the painter's field of vision when he looked wide-eyed at his subject. Responsible for this unique artistic experience was a freckled, 31-year-old artist named...
...When the final whistle is blown a joyful throng will make a bee-line for the goal-posts. Unless these are stoutly defended they will be torn to shreds in the twinkling of an eye. By this time one band will have struck up a tune and the other will have beat a hasty retreat. The crowd, of course, will mill around and the police will nab old offenders. I autloipate numerous celebrations of the victory and frequent brushes with the police...
BERKELEY, CALIF. Nov. 19: On the eye of the 41st Stanford-California football game, 3,000 students and numerous graduates and townspeople got out of hand following the annual pre-game rally. $10,000 damage and numerous injuries resulted before the celebrants left for Palo Alto, scene of the encounter. The rioters pushed automobiles into theater lobbies and derailed trolley cars...
...when the Yardling started to run, the speculator tore open the envelope and found two tickets to the Davidson game, so, fury in his eye, he gave chase. "Yard cop! Yard cop!" shouted the Freshman...
...present a picture heavily weighted with misery, unrelieved by contrasting views of more prosperous levels. They lay themselves open to charges by patriotic Southerners that a similar investigation of lower-stratum existence in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit, might produce equally humiliating results. Meanwhile, You Have Seen Their Faces stands as eye-witness evidence that there are indeed many U. S. citizens ill-clad, ill-nourished and ill-housed...