Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lady campaigners arched their eye brows approvingly. A newsgatherer for the potent, manager-favoring Cleveland Plain Dealer felt embarrassed, sneaked out of the room for a smoke. He had been politely informed that it was not proper to use tobacco before so many ladies. Pickles, sandwiches, coffee, radishes and ice cream were served. With bows and smiles, blue and purple asters were passed to the ladies who had carried the day for the modern form of municipal government. The outcome of the election made round, gallant Manager Hopkins feel as exhilarated as a small boy who, expecting to fail...
...play golf last month when his automobile smashed up, injuring him, killing his chauffeur (TIME, July 29). Last week, fully recovered, Film-man Fox played his first game of golf since emerging from the hospital. At the 17th hole, 150 yards across water, he cocked his eye, waggled his club, swung with precision and, for the third time in his career, holed his tee shot. Said he, modest: "Of course, I know that all three have been a matter of luck...
...Egypt! . . . Some nation must govern Egypt. . . . I hope and believe that you will decide that it is your duty to be that nation!" Citizen Roosevelt had just topped off his famed African hunting expedition with an Egyptian junket on camelback. He spoke as a keen, impartial eye-witness of Egypt's tendency to graft, misgovernment...
...Weizmann, goateed London chemist, president of the World Zionist Organization. Fortnight ago, when 322 delegates gathered in Zurich for the 16th biennial Zionist congress, he was less happy. For he was the appointed spokesman of a great project and in the bearded assemblage he saw many a gleaming, antagonistic eye. The project (in motion for six years) was the foundation of an All-Jewish Union, embracing both Zionists and non-Zionists, for the upbuilding of Palestine. "A Jewish national home, . . ." said Dr. Weizmann, "is no longer the concern of Zionists alone. It must of necessity become a centre which attracts...
...eastward. There upon Will Rogers took to an airplane, pursued the train to an outlying station, dropped the script to Miss Stone who caught it on the fly. In her drawing room, as the train moved on, she began memorizing lines, practicing tap steps, after eating cautiously, with an eye to health...