Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practice in writing on gleanings from the newspapers develops the 'daily theme eye,' which is to the writer what color values are to the artist; that is, the ability daily to see possibilities in and connect ideas with, seemingly insignificant subjects...
...procession consisted of a Grand Marshal, with a huge bearskin cap and baton, assistants with craped staves and torches; a coffin, six feet long, inscribed "Football, 1860," borne by four pall bearers: the Chaplain, with a very large craped that, and huge eye-glasses; the class, wearing invalied beavers inscribed "63," and having crape tied on the right leg. Behind the coffin were the gravestones made of wood, painted black, with the following inscription in white letters: (Headstone) HIC JACET FOOTBALL FIGHTUM AET LX YRS OBIIT, JULY 2, '60. RESURGAT (Footstone) FOOTBALL, 1860 IN MEMORLAM, (over a winged skull...
...refused to write the regulation Negro comic story. Saith Carl Van Vechten, according to the blurb: "The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer is probably the best novel yet written about the Negro." And Critic Van Vechten is not far wrong, for Haldane Macfall can write. He has an extraordinarily observant eye and an equally effective pen. He has the turn of the epigrammatist, but makes no ostentatious display of it. He has a mental balance that is quite above pessimism-a rare attribute in a realist. Neither moralist nor sentimentalist, he writes a thoroughly first rate novel simply by being...
...Harding. Even then he declined to be a guest of honor. So whether he is at his summer home at Manchester, Vt., or his big Colonial brick mansion at 3014 "N" Street, N. W., at the Capital, Mr. Robert Todd Lincoln attracts no attention from the public's eye...
...great many people in the U. S. know Liggett's Drug Store. Enticing the eye (as any good drug store should) with its walls of water-clear glass, its ranked bottles of yellow and orange and blue, its showcases piled with new brushes, sponges, utensils of vanity, the mingled sight of prophylactics, vanilla ice cream sodas, popular face powders, this Liggett's establishment is repeated in dozens of U. S. cities, always neat, always glittering, always the same...