Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sideliner Dudley Haddock [TIME, March 22] get his eye back on the ball game. Graduates of journalism schools can't be held responsible, as he believes, for the ills of today's press. As yet, said graduates are still the minority in a majority of U.S. newsrooms...
Spring came to Germany a month late, and in Berlin, rainy and cold, people were singing a sprightly song called Bel Ami, crowding Hitler's favorite show, Melody in the Night (although Miriam Verne, U.S. dancer who caught Hitler's eye, had gone to Munich to play The Merry Widow). The Rhine suddenly rose, flooded machine gun nests, concrete pillboxes and subterranean construction on Germany's great western fortifications...
...lead on Reporter Hugh Fullerton's story in the old Chicago American about a man who sued for an annulment after he discovered, on his wedding night, that the bride had a glass eye: " 'Drink to me only with thine eye,' said Steve Mijalewski to his new wife. And she raised her glass...
...gives a bird's-eye view of American life in the boom year of 1929, complete with stockmarket quotations. It graphically describes the rotten, disgusting (but pretty juicy) goings-on-how every bathtub brimmed with forbidden gin; how the men, half-crazed with lust and easy money, rushed at the women and seduced them incessantly, on the hills, in the streets, in the valleys, and particularly on the beaches; how the women didn't care a fig, and responded to the assaults in the grossest way. But under their rumpled beds lurked such killjoys as the Gastonia strike...
...With his tall, elegant stoop and long golden beard, Christopher had the aspect of a late Roman emperor, and it was this aspect, apparently, that on one fateful occasion tempted the jovial prince to empty a glass of brandy on his head at dinner. Said Christopher, never batting an eye, "As Your Royal Highness pleases." The guests were convulsed. The prince had made a wonderful comic discovery and, "having enjoyed the great game of sousing Christopher once, he wanted to have it, in the touching way of infancy, 'again.' Well, royalty can command, and he had it again...