Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forty million dollars is a goodly sum of money even in these days when the memory of war-time finance still lingers as an arithmetic nightmare. A man who can afford to give such an amount to education naturally attracts the fickle public eye, and for a moment his every opinion commands a wide attention. So with Mr. James Duke. For the student of American life and thought this event is most fortunate...
...this is a specimen of his sport news, better eliminate all of it. The phrases used are entirely unjustifiable. I want to repeat that my subscription to TIME is canceled. C. J. RATZLAFF. That the Gophers did "wound" Red Grange, did "crash" him, did "heap upon him" no eye-witness will deny. Football is a rough game, but a casualty does not necessarily denote "dirty play."-ED. Undignified...
...Guild grew out of such a movement, to wit, the Washington Square Players, who led a desultory corporate existence and disbanded at the War's outbreak. Some of the Players came together in 1919, started afresh as the Guild, began producing in the Garrick Theatre. Theatreland cocked its eye at John Ferguson by St. John Ervine, the Guild's second offering; kept the eye cocked when Masefield's The Faithful and Ervine's Jane Clegg appeared the next year; declared that the "art theatre" had achieved new and notable dimensions in the U. S. when...
...something to present other in the way of suave innuendo or of righteous exaggeration, and the book reviews were usually competent, but not clever, but one suspects that the unbroken columns of the editorial pages and the unbelievably microscopic print of the reviews presented too little attraction to the eye to tempt the reader from skipping. In the current issue, however, the editorials and reviews are made unusually attractive through liberal use of spaces and running captions in the editorial department, and the selection of a larger type and the introduction of a new sub-department. "Contents Noted...
...upon them with a chastising text-book, that they cannot "find the leisure to be truly interested, truly absorbed in any thought." The remedy--Mr. Chapman uses the teaching of English as an example--is the reading of good books, learning poetry by heart, and practising composition under the eye of a talented man of letters...