Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring your papers into court in an expensive brief case; bring them in an ordinary paper wrapping. . . . Try to get a seat at a table near the jury and let the jury see what you are doing. . . . Lean on the table and look the jury in the eye. . . . Use the same language that the juryman would use in telling your story to his wife and children...
...been willing that any one Continental power should dominate Tangier lest it be fortified into a menace to the route to India. No one believed last week that Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera would achieve the momentous concession from the Powers which he appeared to seek. Statesmen winked an eye and remarked that the Dictator was only trying to stir up sufficient trouble to enable him to demand a permanent League Council seat for Spain as the price of being good...
Short, thick, with a curly nose and an eye like a new horsechestnut; coarse-mouthed and lyric-handed, a good hater, a bad lover, a composer who made his reputation as another man would make his point in a dice game, Pietro Mascagni. It was in Leghorn, Italy, that his father baked bread, but the rumor that Pietro helped in the family trade has never been verified. Indeed, the boy Mascagni refused from the first to soil his hands with flour; he seemed to have an illimitable capacity for roistering, in reward for which, when he was sixteen, his father...
...takings back into an enterprise is unusual; 95 per cent is phenomenal. Few men would do it. Yet this has been the policy of Adolph Ochs publisher, executed by Louis Wiley, business manager. Publisher Ochs is a grave, patrician gentleman, with a bland hand and a judicial eye. His name is the only exclamatory thing about him. He presents an assurance of stability, a hint of qualities that take capitals, an implication of old-worldness, of principles, even, that seem oddly exotic in a world where tinsel is the mode. Manager Wiley was inevitably destined by nature...
...York State, changed the place to Philadelphia, the day to September 23. Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, officials of the Sesquicentennial Exposition, boxing solons of both states, ratified. Dempsey moved his camp to Atlantic City. And sportsmen, feeling that the bout might actually take place, began to cast an eye on the participants. Challenger James J. ("Gene") Tunney, 27, is generally referred to in print as "the Marine." Press agents have adroitly pointed out that while Dempsey lolled the War away in a Brooklyn shipyard, Tunney sprang to arms, arrived early in France, stayed late. He gave lessons, exhibition bouts...