Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With those who look with a critical eye upon him and all his actions, seeing the superficial eccentricity and overlooking the well-measured ability within the man, although he has long passed from those semicircles of desks and the sacrosanct precincts of the Chamber devoted to the deliberations of the Foreign Relations Committee, and although he passed through and beyond the U. S. Embassy at the Court of St. James's, the contemptuous sobriquet still sticks...
...Lloyd George as he read the comment on his speech, "to be taken seriously," "a new, vitalizing and challenging idea," perhaps he dreamed a little of homing, coming to the Government bench in the House?until his eye ran on "obsolete policy." "raises the spectre of agrarian strife," "a mere bundle of details...
...briefest addresses in history; an address known by heart by all kinds and conditions of men, the wide world over; an address which Mr. Edison helped to compose half a century ago out of a rough draft from the brain of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. With blue eye a-twinkle, said Mr. Edison: "Hello...
...still came and perched on his bed in her nightie to kiss him good morning, Jim trembled to see her French blood fast rounding and ripening her into a woman. The city agreed with Mr. Fippany, too. Long a jaunty gambler, he pulled his hat devilishly over one brown eye and drove about the city, his two mules and a string of ravishing bells marking him for no ordinary junk dealer. He compassed a great coup with 317 second-hand bath-tubs, became a wholesale bargain man with a Long Island City warehouse, and his slogan was known...
...unimposing, so "sentimental", as this one are very rarely told in public. When they are they seldom ring true. Sir James Barrie can do them, child that he is. Bonn Byrne's wistful blarney gets astonishing effects. Christopher Morley's vein is more magical; the tail of his kindly eye is almost mystically acute. This Barry Benefield, whom one cannot help identifying with Jim Pickett, seems to have no unusual gifts or tricks. Yet he is quite as irresistible as the others. An unforgettable book...