Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Legend had little to say about his tenderness to his narrow circle of friends, his unfailing generosity, his clear legal perception, his unerring eye and ear for the false, the unessential. Least-recognized was his long-time alertness for the preservation of civil liberties...
Barrington pictured Lord Haw-Haw as "rather like P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster . . . with a receding chin, a questing nose, thin, yellow hair brushed back, a monocle, a vacant eye, a gardenia in his buttonhole." Fancying a creature like this at the Zeesen mike, Britons nowadays consider it a great gag when Lord Haw-Haw says, sententiously: "Britain, your naval prestige is destroyed. We Germans now command the seas. A submarine can dive many times; a capital ship only once...
...unjaundiced eye, radio chuck-a-lucks like Mu$1co and Pot o' Gold (TIME, Oct. 16) may seem a natural radio retort to cinema's screeno, bingo, bank night, etc. But cinemanagers hate to have their potential customers stay home in the evening. Last month astute, 50-year-old Manager Bob Livingston of the Lincoln, Neb. Capitol tried a remedy for the lure of one radio rainbow: $1,000 to anyone sitting in his theatre instead of at home Tuesday nights when Pot o' Gold's $1,000 telephone call comes. Odds against his losing: about...
Between classes, Miss Campbells pupils kept fairly busy reading, writing or drawing, occasionally got up to go outdoors to the privy. Miss Campbell kept a sharp eye open, once remarked: "I see so many drone bees instead of busy bees...
Before Munich the British Air Ministry cast its eye about for a source of Empire-built aircraft out of the reach of Hitler's bombers. The Ministry's eye fixed on Canada. The week before Chamberlain and Daladier signed away the life of Czecho-Slovakia, the Dominion got a new company: Canadian Associated Aircraft, Ltd. It was formed with Government blessing to coordinate aircraft orders from Britain. All its stock is held by six Canadian aircraft makers. The six: Canadian Car & Foundry Co., Fairchild Aircraft, National Steel Car Corp., Canadian Vickers, Fleet Aircraft, Ottawa Car & Aircraft...