Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reporter yesterday at his home 22 Grand Street. "It's just like he was going around with his own daughter. She ain't so good-looking either, but she knows what's what. I reckon her to be about 20, and just anxious to get into the public's eye. She's just silly, and I don't know why so many women rush to that there court to hear all that trash. But its 'spicy' and that's what the women want. I wouldn't advise anyone to hang around court rooms. It ain't so good...
...This improvement is so, he declared, be cause people are learning to take better care of themselves. Said he: "The dangerous age of a woman is from 16 to 18. But the dangerous age for a man is from 50 to 55. If you can't keep your eye on them, lock them up. . . . Gland transfusion is the bunk...
...eight adults were badly smashed in motor accidents. Mary Hutchinson, 20, dancer in Castles in the Air, had both legs broken. I, proceeding by taxicab with a lady to a Waldorf Astoria function, was suddenly hurled against the side of the vehicle. Glass cut me over the right eye. My skull was not, as first feared, fractured. My companion, hurled against me, was unhurt. Next day, as I lay in a hospital, Lawyers Louis Marshall and Gilbert H. Montague (verbally) and Corporation Director Maurice Hely Hutchinson (writing for the Century) all attacked my famed criticisms of corporations. They agreed with...
Commercial baseball, scandalized for some weeks before the public eye, hurried its wranglings to a close. In Chicago, Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis chewed up many cigars over testimony concerning two dismissed club-managers, Tyrus Cobb (Detroit) and Tristram Speaker (Cleveland), accused of "fixing" a game in 1919 (TIME, Jan. 3). Indications were that both would be exonerated. Meantime a head bigger than theirs was chopped off. Byron Bancroft Johnson, founder of the American League in 1900 and its president ever since, accused Commissioner Landis of wilfully and improperly publishing the Cobb and Speaker evidence after receiving it from the American...
Professor McDougall came to Harvard in 1920, when he became a professor in the department of Psychology. It was during his stay at the University that he became prominent in the public eye during the investigation of the "Margery" case, Professor McDougall was among those who undertook the investigation of Mrs. Crandon's mediumistic activities. He reported that he was not convinced that there was anything super-natural about her performance as a medium...