[Ads-l] antedating "easy on the eye"

Jonathan Lighter 00001aad181a2549-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Sun Aug 24 19:56:21 UTC 2025


'Pleasant to look at; handsome; beautiful.'  OED: 1923

1917 _Post-Intelligencer_ (Seattle, Wash.) (Dec. 3) 18 [GenealogyBank]: Of
all the great screen idols, none is so easy on the eye as Charles Ray.

JL

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