Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conductor Willem Mengelberg of the New York Philharmonic welcomed Iturbi on his return to Manhattan. He gave him a birthday party, had a many-layered cake fashioned to represent a skyscraper. Iturbi, hugely pleased, cut it with a swoop while Pianist Ernest Schelling looked on with greedy eye. Iturbi sneaked his portion away, took it back to his hotel and sent it, adorned with two candles, to his twelve-year-old daughter in Paris. Soon afterward he appeared as Philharmonic Soloist under Mengelberg, won the acclaim of critics and public alike. Last week he gave a Manhattan recital solo...
...words, won't thank them until they have sent two beds, a table, a rocker and some kitchen utensils." On the stage, Eddie Cantor's props- comparable to Will Rogers' gum and spinning ropes-are blackface makeup and white-rimmed spectacles. He accentuates his lines with eye-googling and eccentric prancing. When he wrote his first book a year and a half ago (My Life Is in Your Hands, autobiography), he required the aid of a ghostwriter, one David Freedman. Publishers Simon & Schuster vow that his latest book, Caught Short, about the stockmarket, was written...
...bodied, florid, sandy-haired Mr. 0. He governed his charges like an ironhanded country squire, his severity being tempered on occasion by notable Mrs. O, herself the mother of two Pomfret boys. William and Frederick. When a boy slouched round-shouldered out of the dining room. Mr. O's eye was upon him and that boy was sent to get more exercise, more fresh air. Except for a real excuse, every boy had to play football and Mr. O went to the field every day to watch one and all, issue brusque suggestions, take mental notes to pass...
...story concerns two American girls, who, with an eye for pioneering possibilities, discover the account of a barque that is to make its farewell voyage from Vancouver to the Fiji Islands. There are numerous difficulties of practicality and convention to be overcome, but the author and her friend are signed as midshipmaids, and depart, aboard a ship with a cannibal cook and a crew of old-time sailors. The journey takes about two months; the body of the book is made up of the ship's log, which was kept by Miss Cooper...
...most widely used lead products (such as solder) could not be made. The mines owned by National Lead are a small factor in its position as the world's largest consumer of tin and lead. For this reason National Lead, like any wise concern, keeps an eye on its raw supplies. It owns some Patiño stock, keeps its own president and vice president on the Patiño board of directors, was long a partner with Patiño in owning Williams, Harvey & Co. of Liverpool, world's largest tin smelters...