Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Douglas Robinson, otherwise Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, sister of the late President and mother of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, has long been an energetic woman in public life.. Recently she suffered a hemorrhage of the eye which almost blinded her. Last week, none the less, she continued her public speaking until ready to enter Johns Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore for treatment...
...much larger than her own family needs, sold produce to neighbors. Here among the cabbage tops, the bean vines and the other garden truck Henry John used to play. In the house basement he used to watch his mother pickling and canning. The grating of horseradish was an eye-smarting task. But Mrs. Heinz' preparation of this root was so appetizing that it found a ready sale. Henry John was its eager boy salesman...
When Finis Bates arrived he took incognito to gave his friend's body from mob violence. For it was the body of his friend, John St. Helen, beyond peradventure?a hooplike scar over the eye, a neck cicatrice, an old leg fracture, a crooked thumb. And years before, near death in Texas, St. Helen had given Bates proof that only a friend, a lawyer never, could refuse to accept, proof that he was Lincoln's assassin...
...retired to the Pullman board chairmanship and has since avoided the public eye. From his summer home at Manchester, Vt., or his big brick mansion in Washington, he issues into the limelight only on very pressing occasions, such as the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial by President Harding on May 30, 1922, or the hanging of his mother's portrait in the White House a fortnight ago, (TIME, Mar. 1, THE PRESIDENCY...
Belgium. Elizabeth Queen of the Belgians "is one of the most interesting of European Royalties ... a daughter of the Duke Karl Theodor of Bavaria, the famous philanthropist and eye doctor. . . . The Queen like all the Wittelsbachs is many-sided in her accomplishments: she is a clever violinist, a great reader, an admirable horsewoman, a good shot. . . . She is the only 'flying' Queen, and she thinks as little of flight as most people do of a ride in an omnibus...