Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President is a diligent reader of the U. S. press. It is doubtful whether he scans the British press with equal thoroughness, doubtful therefore whether his eye lit on a passage in British papers saying...
Miss Knox, brown and shingled of hair, blue of eye, pert and minxful as her Cleone, declared to popeyed news gatherers: "I wrote the book in a few weeks, but, if I had realized so many distinguished people would have taken it seriously, I should have spent much more time and pains upon it.... I had wanted to write ever since I was a child, but everything I wrote was always returned. Then one day I got the idea of writing a 'diary...
Ninety minutes later there was scarcely a dry eye in the Senate. The cheering had become continuous. When he could not longer be heard, M. Briand signaled for a vote. The Locarno Treaties were ratified...
...with his contemporary, Monet, by people who cannot tell black from white. Manet's figures are flat; Monet's trees and seas and flowery forests leap with a wind of movement. Manet loved light; Monet loved shading. Manet painted with a brush as broad as a glance of the eye; Monet put his color on in tiny dots. Manet saw life as a gleam; Monet saw it as a shimmer. It was late in life that Manet came to recognition; he was laughed at until a day when the Empress Eugenie stood in front of a canvas...
...been sung. The rest is controversial and boisterous"Walt the boastful, Walt the Broadway swaggerer. It is splendid and touching?Walt nursing Civil War soldier boys, Walt's seerhood and second childhood in Camden, N. J. But it is all on the down grade, all in the public eye and more or less familiar, all but the peace of Walt's profound epitaph?...