Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their fountain pens are not done jabbing, however. Under the protecting wing of Alfred A. Knopf who has befriended and encouraged many to whom smug society turned a deaf ear and an unseeing eye, they have started a new magazine, The American Mercury. While in the Smart Set, perhaps to keep a fire in the editorial office, they were forced at times to pander to the tastes of readers who demanded undisturbing fiction, in their newest venture with a publisher like Knopf behind them they need serve neither fiction nor soothing copy of any kind, but may scratch and sting...
...trained eye," said he, "many members of Congress need attention. Now there is a man who might be taken as a model." Dr. Copeland extended his hand towards Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, 51. "He shows good physical condition and looks like he has put in a good summer...
...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion...
Died. William Allan Pinkerton, 77, "The Eye," whose estate was estimated at between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000, in Los Angeles. His father, Allan Pinkerton, who founded Pinkerton's National Detective Agency in 1852, "saved the life" of President Lincoln in Baltimore on his way to Washington to be inaugurated, by taking him off the Presidential "special" and sending him through Baltimore on a preceding regular train. During the Civil War, the elder Pinkerton put William, then 15 years old, in the U. S. Secret Service, later sent him to Notre Dame. In 1884, on the death...
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