Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lieutenant General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell is a man of 69, with upright carriage and snapping eye, such as become a veteran who has campaigned in Zululand, Ashanti, Matabeleland, at Mafeking, in the Transvaal. King Edward dubbed him Knight, King George dubbed him Baronet, 600,000 American boys call him "Chief Scout of the World," and last week at the 16th annual convention of the Boy Scouts of America, Dan Beard, chief U. S. scout, presented him with a silver buffalo and called him "our contemporaneous ancestor." (Sir Robert protested: "That suggests monkeys...
None of them at first will have paid much attention to the city of Butte straggling up the mountain sides, where by day mine mouths stare like blackened cataracts on the human eye, and by night lights glare coldly. In Butte there are good homes and business blocks. But for the most part the dwellings, chop houses, onetime honky-tonks, have a temporary air, a helter-skelter appearance derived perhaps from the mining camp tradition...
...eye, the ear, the rib are most agreeably stimulated by: The Vagabond King, By the Way, Pinafore, Sunny, The Cocoanuts, Iolanthe, Raquel Meller, The Student Prince, Tip-Toes and No, No, Nanette...
...distance stars are expecting to furnish each other the stiffest opposition they will get, if Luttman, who has been out this week, with a bad ankle, is right tomorrow and the track is dry he may push Captain Tibbetts to a new two mile record. Tibbetts has had his eye on this mark for over a year now and with the proper conditions this afternoon he will probably go out after it in earnest...
...felt that if all the members were elected, only men who were prominent in the undergraduate eye would attain membership, it was decided that five men should be appointed. In this way men of great ability who are, nevertheless, not so well known to their classmates, are enabled to take part in the work of the Council; and, in addition, by this means groups not likely to become parts of the Council can gain a representative...