Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first Mr. Wells flipped over the pages contemptuously. Then his eye kindled at the following description of himself, interlarded with an account of a tea party at Lady Russell's London flat...
...there arrived Miss Pattie Field, 24, of Denver-and her mother-and many trunks. Titled Amsterdamers, the local consular corps, a scurrying squad of pressmen, welcomed her, found her good to look upon, looked. Miss Field looked back, with both a twinkle and a glitter in her bold dark eye...
...parents who keep a vigilant eye upon the reading matter set before their offspring had a start last week as they scrutinized the table of contents of that whole some publication for boys and girls, the Youth's Companion.* What was this? A story by d to subject themselves to a shocking experience in defense of their children's innocence...
...Messrs. Mencken and Nathan exchanged a bilious fish eye, carefully adjusted their elegant opera cloaks, gave a final pat to the knap of their ritzy beaver bats, donned their immaculate white capeskin gloves and stalked up the aisle amid envious glances...
...still Princeton persists in carefully doling out by the term the number of cuts to upperclassmen who do not maintain a first or second group ranking. At the same time the University nurtures the upperclass plan of independent study and blinds its eye to the contradiction and paradoxical practice...