Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spring came to Germany a month late, and in Berlin, rainy and cold, people were singing a sprightly song called Bel Ami, crowding Hitler's favorite show, Melody in the Night (although Miriam Verne, U. S. dancer who caught Hitler's eye, had gone to Munich to play The Merry Widow). The Rhine suddenly rose, flooded machine-gun nests, concrete pillboxes and subterranean construction on Germany's great western fortifications. In the midst of spring fervor, Nazi health authorities publicized an unbelievable figure: 75% of all young men between 20 and 29, they said, proved, when examined...
Worried court physicians found that she had escaped with bruises and a bumped eye. Among the scores of bouquets and sympathetic messages from Britain's great was a modest bunch of irises and narcissuses with a note attached: With best wishes for a speedy recovery...
...University of California's famed Lick Observatory, first of the big mountain-top star-stations, perched on triple-peaked, 4,209-ft. Mt. Hamilton. An army attack plane, flying on instruments through fog, hit the main observatory building like a rifle bullet aimed at a bull's-eye...
From the Morgan treasures, energetic Librarian Bell da Costa Greene put on show eye-catching examples in all the fields in which the Library is preeminent. Oij view was a Gutenberg Bible, one of the first printed with movable type (see p. 30). There were some 60 illuminated books and manuscripts, opulent and glowing psalters, gospels, books of hours. There were a series of Rembrandt etchings, some prints showing the development of the mezzotint, many a print and drawing by the great masters. There were letters and manuscripts galore-Milton, Cromwell, Swift, Dickens, Kipling...
...Moore composition was the first offering of a new producing organization, the American Lyric Theatre. A year ago nothing but a glint in the eye of Musician Lee Pattison, the Theatre is now allied with the League of Composers and backed by a list of rich sponsors as long as its own honorable intentions. These include creating, cultivating, providing, stimulating and encouraging U. S. musical drama and ballet...