Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Byron forever sought the public eye; Napoleon never needed to attract it--he compelled it," said Mr. Henry J. Golding in his speech on "The Egoists, Napoleon and Byron," at the Liberal Club yesterday afternoon. Of Napoleon he said, "He was a solitary man, while Byron could never be alone with himself, even in spirit. He was not able even to judge of his own best works...
...Women appeared in court scantily garbed, and men unshaven, complaining that an irate landlady and confiscated their respective clothes and razors." So runs the CRIMSON report, and let every undergraduate pray that it encountered no dean's wary eye. Not that any august member of the administrative board would consider attempting a second-story entrance into a seventh-grouper's room for the purpose of confiscating his neck-ties and garters. This would be clearly impracticable, for if the dean didn't accidentally get his room-mate's apparel, the delinquent could. And besides there might be unfortunate publicity...
...dramatist and a fighter, and there is no better proof of his talents Ithan his speech, which immediately forced into the national arena the question of efficiency. Apparently he desired at once to assume, in the public eye, the role of antagonist to the Senate...
...contest with the Senate, he has a pronounced advantage in the public eye, for the public is made up largely of business men whose natural sympathy is with one who drives ahead to get things done, rather than with the deliberate and political type of mind loathe to abandon its measured tread and political shifts...
...death of Walter Camp marks the passing of the greatest figure in the history of American football. To the horde of readers of sporting pages he was simply the omnipotent eye in the game which saw all, knew all, and through his mythical. All-American teams, published the annual Who's Who of the gridiron. Through this medium Walter Camp was known to the obscurest enthusiast who knew nothing of his uncontested right to sit in judgment over the national college sport...