Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sistine Chapel there stood, surrounded by soft lights, a radiator. Bungalows, batik vacuum-cleaners, stained-glass windows, Empire rooms, Renaissance rooms, furnaces, mosaics, copper leaders, shingles, door panels, floor-cement, player-pianos and bathrooms, everywhere bathrooms. Crystalline with sunken tubs, silver faucet eburnean wicker toilet seats, they met the eye at every turn?exquisite little chapels, deifying the modern frenzy for sanitation...
...periodicals of less importance gently rebuked or soundly execrated her. But it was left for Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Arch bishop of New York, in his pastoral letter, last Sunday, to mark out the impassable barrier between birth con trol and the law of his Church. "Latterly, into the public eye has been thrust an open propaganda that shocks the moral sense of every true follower of Christ. Christian sentiment against it has found expression in the law of the land forbidding the dissemination of the knowledge of its practices. Yet the downright perversion of human cooperation with the Creator...
...once obvious to the Boston Police Force that the law prohibiting improper representation of the National Flag had been violated. They also found, on an inner page, a reproduction of a Manet nude, brazenly doctored to show a winking eye and a tipping wine glass. The title of this picture was given as The Goddess of Liberty; the artist, "Mr. Hotmama"; the caption, "If this be treason, make the most of it." The Boston Police Force did make the most of it. For the first time in The Lampoon's 40 years, it was ordered off the Boston newsstands...
Subscriber Schaye appears to be in all respects correct. The lines TIME quoted, Darius the Mede was a king and a wonder, His eye was proud and his voice was thunder...
...Shame -- Yer Honor, it's more 'n a dacent, self-respectin' policeman kin shtand, the way they're pokin fun at the Irish. Cast yer eye at this. (Pulls a Lampoon of April 15 out of his pooket Reads:) Religion an shquash service. Shall the Cathedral uv Sint Archibald th' Iguostic...