Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story tells of a lovely lady at a great ball in Budapest. For two years she has loved a youth, feared to go to him because of the watch of her veteran and nagging husband. The great Crown diamond is lost-a Buddah's eye with a history. Finding it behind a hanging, she catches fire from its influence. She tells her lover she will run away. In the crisis, he falters. Disillusioned, she gives up the diamond and goes back to her husband...
...they, but sat side by side upon a sofa which George Bellows had painted. Now, for all the intimacy of their attitudes, there was a difference in the semblance, perhaps in the very characters of these two women, apparent at once to the least curious eye, for whereas the one was garbed in all the nicety which the prevailing mode dictates, the other was naked Mr. Bellows was more successful in drawing attention to his painting than he had been in drawing the left arm of his clothed lady, which was signally elongated...
...found himself at middle age determined to break with his habits of life and to become a sort of American Galsworthy. He wrote, therefore, His Children's Children,* which caught critical and public fancy. He has followed it with several other books, among them, The Needle's Eye† and Marriage à la Mode, about to appear serially...
...books is already large. He has written wisely of American society and business. There is no reason why he should not some day write that penetrating study of the great American business man which has yet to be put within pages. In "Uncle Shiras" of The Needle's Eye he foreshadowed this. Such a novel burns to he written...
...accurate passing which has characterized the play of the first forward line. Zarakov took Hodder's place, but was also forced to leave the game in the second period when he suffered a recurrence of his football injury on the knee. Ellison had a stitch taken in his eye as a result of a collision with Small, the B. A. A. defense...