Word: eyelids
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...worst been one half as bad as the very best of most other college comic. Their jejune obscenities can be studied, by any sociologist who will take the trouble to collect an armful of them; and this will be an excellent thing for anyone who has lifted a supercilious eyelid at the peccadilloes of the Lampoon. The nastiness of little boys telling dirty stories in the alley behind the livery stable finds beautiful literary and artistic expression in the humorous papers which most American colleges put out at this time...
...limousine down Manhattan's Riverside Drive in the small hours of New Year's Eve last week. Biff, crack, splinter-clatter-the glass of the windows broke about me as another car, revelers within, ran head on into mine. Five stitches had to be taken in my eyelid, and my head is bandaged over other cuts. The New York Herald-Tribune, perhaps to increase sympathy, reported me as 'in the seventies...
...Ralph Hepburn, automobile racer, moving at 125 miles an hour, swerved crazily, threw on his brakes, drew up at the side of the track. Mechanics found him almost unconscious from pain. A sparrow had flown against his goggles, broken them, forced a piece of glass under his eyelid...
Passing through Calais in a green suit, green hat and brown spats he was hailed by a crowd shouting "Vive Calmette! Vive Clemenceau! Vive Ignace!" He did not blink an eyelid...
...once to practice with his father and his elder brother, William J. (born in 1861). The citizens of Rochester generally agreed that young Charles was the least "impressive" of the three Mayos. Perhaps his appearance prejudiced, for he was not genial. No ruddy jester was he, with a nervous eyelid and a midwifian ribaldry to cheer the anxious parent in her distress. Far from it. William J. was a spot that way, but Charles was a doleful fellow, "with a face pulled out of tallow." That was a long time ago. Last year, at the Democratic Convention in Manhattan, Charles...