Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unbending character of his hero, Arthur Train makes an interesting indictment of political chicanery. Although the great god of coincidence may be a trifle overworked, one nevertheless gets the distinct impression that justice is a some-what sottish spirit with a bald, perspiring head and an opportunely winking eye...
...Ambassador Ogden Haggerty Hammond's coach rode Count Velle, whose duty was to introduce the new U. S. Ambassador to Spain to H. M. Alphonso XIII, a vital, resolute young man with a twinkle in his eye...
...larval parasite in the nasal passages or other head cavities of deer, cattle and other ruminants. To find suitable host animals and catch them and get into their noses and out again, the adult flies must range immense tracts of country at terrific speed. To the human eye, their passing is "of such incredible swiftness that one is utterly unable to initiate any movement whatever toward capture" before they vanish from sight. "Form is not sensed by the eye as they pass, but merely a blur or streak of color, and only a fleeting glimpse of that." Dr. Townsend estimates...
...article caught the eye: "NOTED PRELATE HERE SUNDAY. "The Most Reverend John T. McNicholas, Archbishop of Cincinnati, will arrive . . . early Sunday morning . . . will breakfast at the temporary episcopal residence in the Chancery building . . . and will say mass at one of the churches...
...Into what follows, the author has injected many incidents personally witnessed by him, and with a sure eye for comic effect in word and situation, has drawn a sympathetic picture of the laughter and the laughable for which the war sets the stage...