Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Royal Vamp" of himself. I visited England last year and want to say that a great many people in London know him for what he is. Too many Americans think he is a sweet, babyfaced, "innocent," "embarrassed" young man ! That is perfect nonsense, and anyone with half an eye should know it. I only hope this incident will open people's eyes in this country. In England everyone knows the truth...
...write you this letter calmly, not happen to be interested in any of the five men whose pictures by Artist Woolf you offer for sale in this outrageously restricted manner. But I do have my eye on the extremely spirited sketch of Otto H. Kahn, by Artist Stevenson, which appears on the cover of your Nov. 2 issue. Is it to be "offered" also...
...that the undergraduate has "a feeling of duty" to his college; does not want to be a "quitter"; that if he has football ability, he is practically commandeered; the fascination of the eclat and glory of being on a college team; the excitement of being in the public eye; and the tremendous publicity and public interest in the game which induces excitement. In the Boston Herald of Saturday morning. November 7, I counted eighteen columns given to football; and this before a single game had been played on that day! It was propaganda to work up interest in the coming...
...summer workmen have hammered, walls have risen, grass has sprouted in Baltimore where the Wilmer Institute - greatest eye-research laboratory in the world- was being erected, equipped. Last week it was finished. Its fund- begun by Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root in gratitude to Dr. William Holland Wilmer, who saved her sight (TIME, Feb. 23)-is now $3,000,000. Dr. Wilmer is in complete charge. Rich and poor may go there for healing and only the rich will...
...Corporation, Judge Gary unwittingly attracted much attention by inviting other steel gentlemen to take dinner with him occasionally to talk over the steel business. The Steel Corporation has often been accused, but never convicted, of being a monopoly in itself. However, when the "Gary dinners" came into the public eye, much clamor was raised by politicians that these functions violated the spirit (if not the letter) of the Sherman law. It was asserted that the masters of steel unofficially, yet none the less efficiently, regulated the whole industry over Judge Gary's coffee and cigars. The Judge was compelled...