Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That amazing mechanism, the human eye, adjusts itself to Los Angeles in a matter of hours. The optic nerves grow submissive before the red glare of geraniums, the flash of windshields, the sight of endless and improbable vistas of pastel stucco. Even on his first, casual, hundred-mile drive the pilgrim achieves a kind of stunned tranquillity, and gazes unblinkingly at palace-studded mountains, rat-proofed palms, and supermarkets as big as B-2Q hangars...
...Cecil B. DeMille production. Los Angeles began life in 1781 as the Spanish pueblo of Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciúncula -a comatose village of 44 souls, surrounded by arid plains and arid mountains. It dozed for a century, hardly opening an eye when four square Spanish leagues of its dusty ground was incorporated into a U.S. city...
Though the housemaid plainly did not know it, she and the Queen Mother, who tends to patronize Belgium's Communists, probably saw eye to eye about the election's dominant issue. That issue was "the royal question": should the Queen Mother's exiled son, King Leopold III, be recalled to the throne from which he had been barred by Parliament...
...Youse. Readers admire Palooka because he is the kind of fellow a lot of them (including Cartoonist Fisher) would like to be. He is big, strong, good-looking and popular; his hefty right always triumphs, often over eye-gouging, foul-fighting opponents. He hobnobs with a lot of celebrities without getting stuck up. An inveterate name-dropper himself, stocky Cartoonist Fisher populates his strip with real people, e.g., Bing Crosby, Tom Clark, Jack Dempsey, and models many of his fictional characters on other celebrities. Humphrey Pennyworth, an engaging, potbellied giant, was inspired by Manhattan Restaurant-Man Toots Shor...
...hour later the press association sent out a shamefaced bulletin: the news was not true. After that, government police started an investigation of the report and moved in on Promoter Milne's fabulous borehole. Under their watchful eye, Milne drilled another "deflection" test (a boring near the bottom of the shaft) within a few inches of where the first fabulous strike had been made. The test ore was turned over to the government's assayers. Their report: the ore indicated a yield of 2 oz. of gold per ton of ore, or about 1/24Oth of the record yield...