Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news bulletins, flock to jargon-heavy lectures by female stock-market experts. Companies operate scores of advisory offices in department stores and train stations, where shoppers and commuters can dash in to buy shares in investment trusts promising yields as high as 23%. Female investors all keep a sharp eye on how their money is spent, go off together on monthly plant inspections to see that no man ruins what women have helped to build...
Less U, More H. Co-Author Frank's tear-shot camera eye pans in on Sheilah Graham when she was still Lily Sheil, a grimy Cockney moppet of six being carted away to the East London Home for Orphans. The eight orphanage years were Dickensian. Eventually Lily found a job as a skivy (housemaid) but soon chucked it. She had a chance to demonstrate a U-shaped toothbrush ("It fits the inside of your teeth") and her pearly performance caught the eye of U-born Major John Graham Gillam, D.S.O. It was a case of an 18-year...
...example: though Green Eyes calls himself "alone," he has had a never-completely-defined relationship with a woman on the outside. He suggests that Maurice's fascination with him is "for her. Am I wrong? When you looked at me, it was just to find out how our bodies fit together." Maurice has said earlier to Green Eyes, "Just seeing her through you drives me almost nuts," and Green Eyes has answered, "I make a nice couple, eh?" Still earlier, Lefranc says sneeringly to Maurice of Green Eyes, "...I didn't talk about him as if he were a young...
...extra ticket, mistah?" The urchins were flanking him, demanding his attention, scowling at him. "Got an extra ticket?" He stopped in the middle of Larz Anderson Bridge and carefully poured one eye-socket of bourbon...
...What's that?" Sebbie asked as Vag poured into the eye socket...