Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forward, like a busy battering ram, in an effort to break the police cordons thrown round the building. Eventually several Fascisti dashed by the police, entered the hotel, chased Signor Amendola up to his bedroom on the fourth floor where he locked himself in. His secretary received a black eye for being heavy of foot and stiff of limb. At this point, Fascist Deputies prevented further insurrection by urging the local Black Shirts to remain calm and Signor Amendola to leave town...
...when news came from Manchuria that Morgan Palmer, U. S. citizen from New York State, had been killed while helping the inhabitants of a village near his ranch to beat off a horde of brigands. At the same time the brigands seized the person of Dr. H. J. Howard, eye specialist of the Rockefeller Hospital in Peking, who was visiting Mr. Palmer at his ranch, dragged him to their mountain lair, since when nothing has been heard of him. Mr. Palmer's mother, Dr. Howard's son, one Harold Baldwin (formerly of Derby, Conn.), together with wife...
...friend has hinted, more or less darkly, more or less ignorantly. Practising "doctors of psychoanalysis" are not now uncommon in the world, charlatans of the sort that has battened on prevailing mental and medical fads since a skulking witch-doctor first sold a pickled dog's eye to a savage with a bellyache...
...been severed. His wife came to call on him and he demanded "clo's." She opined that he had best remain in the hospital for a while in pajamas. It appeared, after she had gone, that he did not acquiesce in her proposal. He fixed his eye on a press observer who was standing near by. Siki staggered weakly out of bed, seized the reporter's arm for support, marched out of the hospital, into the street. There he hailed a taxicab and disappeared again into the places where he disappears...
...living abroad, and depend on TIME for my knowledge of American events. TIME and green celluloid eye shades are the only things I have to import from America...