Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the past several years the list of alumni assisting students has been expanded with an eye toward covering a broader number of careers and geographical areas...
Browsing around the Square, with an eye out for anything interesting, may be an easier way out. The Krockodiloes album, a book of Abner Dean or Charles Adams cartoons are pretty good possibilities...
...doubt Actress Cornell was sufficiently charmed by the part to shut her eye to the play. Ana allows her a fine actressy evening in black velvet and white brocade; she suffers, poor woman, almost as much as the audience. The other players have not so much roles as rigmaroles, which cannot be acted, but only hammed. Henry Daniell hams best, as the King...
...surfaced Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford). His life story is told in choppy, dramatic incidents, which give the movie a curious pattern-Stark at the football stadium, Stark haranguing a fairgrounds crowd, Stark bulldozing the legislators, Stark posing for cameramen with his estranged family. The small, disconnected scenes hit the eye with the repetitive impact of telephone poles seen from a fast train, and din the main character deep into the mind...
Quivering Nostrils. Lafcadio Hearn was a sight to see, and he knew it. One eye was blind and covered with a milky film; the other was "myopic and protruding, so that it looked like the single eye of an octopus." A short (5 ft. 3), slight man with a scraggly mustache, he made some people think of "a distorted brownie." The nostrils of his long aquiline nose quivered constantly, picking up odors that most people could not smell at all. Odors were his great passion. During his New Orleans period, he translated every article he could find in French periodicals...