Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many join because their fathers belonged. Some join because membership is good for their business or good for their political careers (this is known scornfully as "button Masonry"). More join because they meet the town's best citizens on eye level. Some, perhaps, join out of mere curiosity over the mysterious rites. The majority join just to be with the gang-and are more or less surprised to experience a quite considerable spiritual uplift after they get in. Said a Rutland, Vt. advertising salesman: "There's something gets under your skin at a lodge meeting which makes...
...Edward VII, an habitue of Maxim's in the days when Offenbach's music set the pace for Parisian gaiety. As Mademoiselle Fifi, Princess Margaret and seven of her friends turned the embassy party into a show that would have delighted Edward's eye if not his sense of royal decorum...
...Because the guerrillas did not like their girl fighters to be incapacitated by pregnancy, a decree of celibacy had been proclaimed. But Papouas and Marianthi seemed to be exempt. The simmoritissai who obeyed the celibacy rule looked at Marianthi askance-or, as the Greek saying goes, with "half an eye"-but they dared not criticize her to her face...
...paper drive, organized by the mothers, raised enough money to buy Beauregard the first telebinocular (for eye tests) and Audiograph (for hearing tests) in any New Orleans public school. Among the first 65 children tested, Schwertz found 38 who needed glasses or other eye treatment, and several who were being handicapped by deafness...
...Eye Test. In Los Angeles, police were looking for the stranger who snatched off Harvey Bornstein's glasses, made his victim count the number of fingers he held up, then snapped the glasses in two and walked away with the remark: "You don't need glasses...