Word: eye
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pink of cheek, blue of eye, modest of demeanor, he stood upon the 10th green of the Merion Cricket Club's West course at Ardmore, Pa., and received the cheers of 5,000 or more galleryites, the handshake of George Von Elm, youthful Los Angelist, whom he had defeated 10 and 8* in a ruthless final...
...Like any instruction book, this part is all very involved and reiterative, so eager is the teacher to tell all he knows and to be perfectly clear. He advances nothing new or profound, unless it is an emphatic command that the left toe shall "claw" the ground and the eye be fastened not upon the ball as a whole, but upon one particular dimple of the ball. The style advocated is the straight-armed, full-swinging British method and will not appeal greatly to Americans, who now favor the curt backswing with a short-shafted, large-headed club...
...Tolley humor is, in fact, a notable disappointment. Since he first hove into the public eye, Tolley has been touted as a merry, garrulous, quip-cracking links-wit. Tales are told of his Oxford days when, in postprandial exuberance, he would harangue a blithe gathering in his rooms upon his years of study at the science of propelling a spheroid. He would then tee a ball on the carpet and drive it smashing through a closet panel. Another feat was to loft balls from the lawn of University College to the sward of Queen's College over the walls...
...children and others. In Tucson, Ariz., the next stop, they were again feted for their feat, in spite of the fact that Governor G. W. P. Hunt, stricken with appendicitis, could not be present. The following day, they hopped to San Diego and stared, like stout Cortez, with eagle eye...
...October 21, the first open night, Professor S. I. Bailey, will speak on "The Stars and the Nebulae of the Milky Way". On November 3 Miss C. H. Payne will talk on "Stellar Chemistry". On November 19 Dr. W. J. Luyten will speak on "The Naked Eye Stars." Miss A. J. Cannon will tell how to classify the stars on December 5, and on December 18 Professor E. S. King will speak on "The Coming Total Eclipse...