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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since he reluctantly divorced Queen Soraya in 1958, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran, has been window-shopping through Europe. In his search for a new bride who would present him with a son and heir, the Shah's wandering eye was caught by Italy's pretty Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy, 19. But the Vatican, all Italy, and the girl herself proved unalterably opposed to the marriage. Last week his capital of Teheran was alive with signs that the Shah had found both happiness and the bride he wanted in his own country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Shah's Search | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...fantasies-Salome and George Sand, Lysistrata and Camille -into one. As the show proceeds, certain scenes are repeated, certain songs are reprised. But from the outset, Take Me Along puts its trust in mood rather than momentum. Rather than shattering the funny bone, ravishing the ear or dazzling the eye, it just leaves a nice taste in the mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical on Broadway, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Susan Margaret Claydon. a cheerful young woman who grew up in suburban New Rochelle, N.Y., is a scholar specializing in 17th century English. She is also a Roman Catholic teaching sister, member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. A vigorous teacher with a sharp eye for the world's ways, Sister Margaret this summer was named head of Washington, D.C.'s Trinity College (enrollment: 646), her own alma mater ('45). Last week, in her new role as one of the nation's youngest college presidents, Sister Margaret, 36, called a press conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sisterly Advice | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...Paintings were to be tilted backward, "as on the artist's easel"; lighting would come from skylights above the ramp and would be reflected downward by louvers. "The net result of such construction is greater repose," Wright declared, "an atmosphere of the unbroken wave-no meeting of the eye with angular or abrupt changes of form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Last Monument | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...Yacht. Despite the squeeze, hardly any banker is going to be beastly to a borrower. Reason: a great change has swept over U.S. banking. The banker whose thin lips seemed to be permanently fixed in a no has been succeeded by the banker with a neighborly twinkle in his eye. The soft sell has replaced the hard eye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: The Big Banker | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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