Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mussolini! The throne of his power rests upon the bodies of an oppressed people. His sword is at their throats. The vision that delights his eye is a field of the slaughtered. The picture that most entrances his soul is an ocean of blood, through which he can walk with brutal, tyrannical feet...
Unfortunately the letter came under the eye of the French secret service, and four operatives were sent after "the man who has dared to insult the Premier of France." Simultaneously the Minister of Commerce started proceedings against the carpenter for having "illegally mailed currency in an unregistered letter...
...cushion the Pahlavi crown, newly fashioned from a monstrous weight of gold and gems to inaugurate the new dynasty. Behind strode other officials, Cabinet members, all bearing other crowns and diadems, which they set beside the throne. Last came a smiling jaunty dare-devil with a light in his eye, striding swiftly in a gorgeous pearl embroidered cape, wearing his habitual military cap adorned with a single aigret. With lithe dignity he seated himself on the Peacock Throne. Quickly he removed his cap. Almost as quickly he placed the Pahlavi crown upon his well groomed head.* Then he stood...
...York Daily Mirror, with characteristic emphasis, spoke for the gum-chewers. At the top of its editorial page two pictures were printed, one of Sinclair Lewis with a monocle in his eye, and one (on the left) of a large hairy baboon with enormous ears, a wise, sad, underslung mouth, a flat nose. The baboon also wore a monocle...
That was all. The mighty Missourian had not got much?just a wee bit. But the ink was not yet dry on the "extras" when General Andrews was being shaped in the public eye as John Barleycorn Redivivus. Quoth, for example, Senator McKellar of Tennessee...