Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adherents charged that Schley had been negligent, had mismanaged his part of the campaign, had disobeyed orders. In 1901 Schley demanded a Court of Inquiry which was held. Sampson was too ill to appear. But Schley, who was an aggressive type of man, was on hand, quick of eye and springy of step, hearty and good natured in spite of being a grizzled veteran past 60. He was personally attractive, impulsive, brave and sure of himself. The Court found him guilty of "vacillation, dilatoriness and lack of enterprise," and declared that he had been slow in obeying orders, remiss...
...committee, moreover, should have an eye to the practical difficulties which all radical departures from established traditions are sure to encounter. It should mix caution with courage. Nothing is easier than to outline an ideal scheme of college education based on the hypothesis that all teachers are supermen and that all students are paragons of industry. But unhappily on such Utopian conditions are in sight. What we want is something that will point the way to a better use of the human material at hand. Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...Tabor" to any St. Ber. nard boy and he will answer mechanically, "Mr. Jenkins." They were joint headmasters: John Jenkins, a brusque punctilious Englishman with a voice that barks, an eye that explodes, and a mustache that bristles in a futile attempt to conceal the deep and challenging kindness he feels for all lads under 16; Mr. Tabor, a man who looked as if he might have sat as a model, long ago, for Mr. Punch- a very tall, sanguine, athletic Mr. Punch, with a charm that made mothers ask him out to dinner and fathers...
...Metropolitan opens its history with Adolphe Menjou in "The King on Main Street" an amusing and sophisticated farce on the troubles of Kings and things in general. Menjou lifts a supercilious eyebrow, shrugs a careless shoulder, and winks a languid eye with all the nonchalance generally associated with Kings. His affair with the Swedishly attractive Gretta Nisson has all the clever subtlety that made "The Marriage Circle" popular not so very long ago. Menjou's gallant courtesy in the latter part of the picture comes as near to wistful romance as a King very well can. So there...
...Among the other books of early Harvard associations are an original manuscript autobiography of Thomas Shepard, minister in Cambridge when the College was founded and until 1649. This book is loaned by the Shepard Historical society of Cambridge. One page of it catches the eye...