Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Jewett tried manfully to bear the title role and came even closer to success than did all his supporters down to the Harvard super pilgrims. His appearance was all that could be asked for, his eye wild enough; and his voice smacked somewhat of the wilderness, but the total effect was unconvincing. The part requires too long a performance of sustained excellence. Miss Francesca Braggiotti, to come to the more important matter of Salome and the Seven Veils, was not quite all we dropped for from that mad, bad daughter of Herodias. To give credit where credit...
When Harold ("Red") Grange first began to romp under the managerial eye of C. C. ("Cold-cash") Pyle, and U. S. suspected that. Mr. Pyle was a sucker. Later, when professional football showed signs of success they realized that Mr. Pyle was a businessman. Then Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis ace, turned professional, along with other tennis notables. People thought that Mr. Pyle showed acumen. Until last week, however, few knew that Mr. Pyle was likewise a dramatist. The scene was the great dining hall of the steamship Paris, ablaze with lights, aglow with chatter of sporting bigwigs. William Hanford...
...Junior eleven also being sent in to face the high school eleven. The Sophomore squad, which is the largest, has also shown the most rapid development and has thus been picked to bear the brunt of the first outside contest. The game has been scheduled with an eye to preparing both teams for their later engagements and the coaches will stop play whenever they wish to point out to the players their defects and to correct the collective play of both teams...
...ever since her designs were first unfolded in the Sikorsky shops. Out over the ocean it would be his task, not only to help Clavier with the radio, but to watch every cam and strut aboard. That they would flawlessly function he was certain, but he did eye for a moment the special "dolly" (wheeled landing gear) which had been added to help the S-35 leave earth, and which the pilots, once aloft, planned to drop away as excess weight...
...sprinkle as the fighters got into the ring, grew harder; how Dempsey kept weaving in, pawing at Tunney with fierce, ineffective blows; how people spread newspapers over their knees and passed bottles from hand to hand; how Tunney outboxed Dempsey, poked him off with wary blows, closed his left eye, cut his cheek, made his nose bleed. In the last round, with a tremendous effort, Dempsey fired his weariness into a rally and swung a right for Tunney's jaw. If that blow had connected the Dempsey-Tunney fight would have been remembered as the most sensational ten-round...