Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girls. The results are just what everybody except the headmistress and the founder would hope for. At least they were in the case of the one Mary Burnham girl whose history I am up on. She now requires frequent large doses of scotch, wears her hair over one eye, and believes in Dartmouth weekends. And she goes to Connecticut College for Women, where they have plenty of telephones...
...Dark-eyed Adela Velarde was 14 when she left Ciudad Juárez to join the army of General Venustiano Carranza. She became a nurse. Dressed in a green uniform cut from the curtains of a Pullman car, she rode through the Mexican Revolution on a grey hospital train under the watchful eye of a veteran head nurse named Leonor Villegas de Manon...
Radio can even provide a new personality, or renovate an old one. A Twin Falls, Idaho matron who reported that she had "always suffered from inferiority and insecurity" was chosen "Queen for a Day." "Now," she testifies, "I can meet anyone, look them in the eye and feel equal...
...Quarter. Politicians and lobbyists are Evjue's prime targets. The Times keeps a detective's eye on all officials in the state, and regularly prints box scores of legislative votes. Evjue harried Republican Governor Julius Heil out of office in 1942 by publishing a daily record of his absenteeism ("He's In," "He's Out"). Wisconsin has even coined the word "ev-juing" to describe the whip-smarting way he lays into an errant governor, legislator or dogcatcher...
...Chico, head of the working bandits, J. Carroll Naish does a fine eye-rolling caricature of the stock "Mexican general." He is greased-up, bulb-nosed, and hidden by eyebrows and mustache heavy enough to make a hair shirt. The dancers (Ricardo Montalban, Sono Osato, Ann Miller, Cyd Charisse) are easy to watch. The Technicolor makes the white horses and blue skies look wonderful, and most of the actors feverish...