Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand Street Follies (Third Edition). The Neighborhood Players will not dim the glitter of their reputations by the third edition of their follies. A purification committee inspects Manhattan's entertainments and, in a series of plays within the play, one gets a satyr's-eye view of the season's theatricals. The items include...
This ancient tradition has a much broader aim, however, than the mere cataloguing of peculiarities, that is, individual peculiarities. It aims to give in a few striking details a bird's eye view of the entire class as revealed in its most characteristic likes and dislikes. Here are some of the results, quoted from the Princeton Alumni Weekly, which show what four years of college have done for the Class...
...scribbled with an extraordinary network of fine lines, was curiously dis- ordered under the bush of his white hair. He was dead. When Camille Flammarion was 9, he saw an eclipse. It was not the spectacle of the little moon lying like a black penny in the huge dead eye of the sun that astounded him; that, he is said to have remarked, was "a simple piece of mummery, duplicable with a candle and a franc piece." But the thing that amazed him was that men, by means of charts, dials and tubes to peer through, had calculated...
...worst of it, no doubt, is the publicity involved. To the average person, this might not mean much, but to a moving-picture actress, already much in the public eye, it must be particularly distasteful. Of course, we may be thankful that the plot was discovered before any damage was done?except the publicity. But even so, there is danger that the thing will become an epidemic. That is, enterprising press agents, now that the jewel-theft scheme has pretty well worn out, may try to fake kidnapping plots and in that way get their employers' names in the paper...
...makes no difference whether or not they have an Honor System. As for the student who says that it makes him nervous to have a proctor in the room, that he constantly feels uneasy, we have little sympathy. He will have to get used sometime to working under the eye of an employer. The purpose of an Honor System should not be to nurse along incompetents or to make it pleasant and attractive for writing, but it is a gentleman's agreement which lifts a distasteful and annoying burden from the shoulders of members of the faculty and which treats...