Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personally edited by Harry Houdini, President of the Society of American Magicians. Red this magic section was-red with ink. Magic this section was not, save as parlor tricks and picture puzzles are magical. One was not taught how to exorcise satanic presences, to stir a cauldron fraught with "eye of newt and tov.gue of toad," to draw a charmed circle or utilize the mystical phases of the moon. "Magic" was used in its popular, journalistic sense in naming the new section. And a popular, highly successful journalistic departure the new section promised to be. It reminded readers...
Round Daniel's leg (Unseen by human Eye...
...Princeton 34; Harvard 0." This little upset in the Harvard athletic world is not, as has been said, a University calamity. It is just a straw; just the first of a series of vivid eye-openers, which will summon the vast and loving army of Harvard graduates to the colors, for the desperately-needed battle against indifference. Fair Harvard must be more than "only fair...
Jeritza's triumph came later in the first week. Wagner's Tannhaüser was her medium. Never more beautiful to the eye, she succeeded in making the too-good-to-be-true Elisabeth almost pathetically human. Herr Laubenthal in the title role saved himself no effort, and therein lay his defeat...
...Ross-he was the culprit; wild Tom Ross, gallant Tom Ross, "the last of the bad men." A man as lean as a knife, with narrow lips, wide cheekbones and a jewel in his eye, he shot those who insulted him with laudable courtesy. The cattle inspectors, for instance. They had been so ill-advised as to report some piracies-of his. He went to their hotel, shot them. He was oppressed at his trial, which lasted over a month, as one forced to endure a protracted breach of good taste. When the sentence was read, he commiserated the jury...