Word: eyelidded
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Treatments. In Omaha, firemen driving a nine-year-old girl to a hospital to have a piece of candy removed from her throat went over a bump, which did the trick. In the same city a doctor pulled down a ten-year-old boy's eyelid preparatory to operating for the removal of a b.b. shot. The shot rolled...
...working on the disease, no one yet knows what it is. It has been seen in Austria, India, Britain, Germany, Australia, Malaya, is probably carried by a virus. It usually infects only one eye, which becomes bloodshot, swollen, drips tears like a leaking faucet. At first the inner eyelid is speckled red, like trout, later looks like crimson velvet. During the second week there is occasional stabbing pain in the eyeball; after that there is little discomfort except the continual dripping...
...they are prosperous (in China, with its frequent famines, being fat is esteemed as a sign of being a solid citizen). > Chinese, not as hairy as Japanese, seldom grow an impressive mustache. > Most Chinese avoid horn-rimmed spectacles. > Although both have the typical epicanthic fold of the upper eyelid (which makes them look almond-eyed), Japanese eyes are usually set closer together. > Those who know them best often rely on facial expression to tell them apart : the Chinese expression is likely to be more placid, kindly, open; the Japanese more positive, dogmatic, arrogant...
...small, plain, ash-blonde girl, Betty resembles anything but a movie siren. But she makes the most of her looks, has developed a technique well-suited to the camera. Her eyes are her principal dramatic weapon, and she can make a raised or lowered eyelid as articulate as a sweeping gesture. She rarely cracks her poker face, and this frozen countenance subtracts several years from her appearance. It also makes her look as if she were hiding some painful mental torture. Said one friend: "Until you get to know her, you think...
...grandfather's money (rest him), or father's money (good old Dad). Or perhaps even other people's money (poor suckers). But the sheen is still present, although better disguised. Sometimes it is in the face, where the smile is false and automatic, sometimes in drooping shoulder or eyelid, or in unjustified hauteur. No dollar bills, no returned quarters. James or William, the chauffeurs, know that today their passengers will walk the customary four or five blocks on Commonwealth Avenue or Tremont Street before the car is to cruise tactfully past and pick them up last the master's shoe...