Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heroine will bear even more enthusing. She flashed into the movie public's eye not long ago when she showed more--more talent that is--than did the American Venus in the "American Venus." An adequately fleshed gentleman who was seated at our right, and who proclaimed himself no mean judge of feminine pulchritude, asserted more-over that she has "it," and we could see no good reason for disagreeing with him on that count. The concensus of masculine opinion, which after all is the only worth while opinion in these matters and which was garnered during our progress from...
...Guests were embarrassed. Grace Coolidge was not. She leaned over so as to see around a floral centrepiece and, looking the President squarely in the eye, said with a smile...
...polite but insidious irony which he was unable to resist. The Count, whose vivid charm of manner won him much social popularity in Washington before his "undiplomatic"** intrigues as pre-War German Ambassador were discovered, arose at Geneva last week and spoke with a malicious twinkle in his eye: "The delegates should apply to their nations the same rules which they applied in disarming Germany. . . . Talk of 'regional security' would seem slightly out of place in this discussion, though we Germans sympathize with those who seek security, having none ourselves. . . . But is not war now impossible? Has not the League...
...that the Sultan alone of men should actually look upon the women with whom he might elect to consort. When it was noised about that "Mokri the Blind" had gradually developed his sense of touch to a point where it was almost equally discriminative with the Sultan's practiced eye, the entire responsibility of making a preliminary choice among candidates for thb harem was passed on to him. Eventually his reputation became such that many of the higher nobles of the court habitually asked his advice when choosing an additional wife. Europeans, while deploring the tendency of "Mokri the Blind...
...offensive features of the week's play have been the continual heavy hitting of Captain Todd, whose figure still continues to climb, and now stands well above the coveted .300 mark, at .367; the return of Burns' batting eye after a short lapse and the hitting streak of Ullman, who though he faced opposing pitchers but once last week, has improved his mark from...