Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monsieur le chirugien Georges Gelly, who performed many a successful operation on the faces of wounded poilus, had his right eye blown out by an accidental explosion in his experimental laboratory. Dr. Gelly, a leading dental surgeon in Paris, well-beloved by ex-service men, had his home flooded by anxious enquiries...
Life is getting harder for the chorus girl. Last week Florenz Ziegfeld issued a general order (by telegraph, as is his custom) to omit Imogene Wilson from further performances of his current Follies. And all because she got herself in the newspapers for an alleged punch in the eye at the hand of Frank Tinney, piebald comedian...
Imogene meant no wrong. She was simply striving for an honest living. Ziegfeld has blocked her road, because Tinney blacked her eye. The time may come when a chorus girl will be refused honest employment simply because she has married the third or even the second millionaire, or because she has dropped a handbag containing dynamite in a crowded taxi-cab. "What's going to become of us?" conscientious, multimarried chorus girls are asking. And there simply isn't any answer...
...Professor Herbert E. Roaf expressed his belief that it will be possible to correct colorblindness or "hypochromatic vision" by wearing over one eye a color filter or colored eyeglass...
...alleged punch in the eye at the hand of a piebald comedian...