Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene: "As you looked at the Representatives and Senators you were convinced that for such achievement as comes out of them we must rely on the capacities inherent in average men. In clothes and in countenance they were conspicuous, so to speak, in their averageness. . . . To the eye it was like a meeting of the Farmers' Cooperative Association of Des Moines, la., or a session of the male members of any small-town church...
...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion...
...writer more thoroughly human than the author of A Certain Rich Man. "I'd rather be young than right," he added; but this was only after he had postulated that "Youth is always right." And this, of course, with the well known humorous twinkle in his eye. A kindly man, a wise man, a man whose heart and abilities have always been devoted to the liberalism of America, who sits in his editorial chair at Emporia and exerts increasing influence for good in American politics and life...
...knows what treasures may not be uncovered by the inquiring eye of the haunter of bookshops? Who knows what bibliographic gem may not fall beneath his searching fingers, what miraculous volume, lost through the years, may not turn up to give the thrill that comes once in a lifetime, filling his brain with the pride of discovery and his pockets with the gold of treasure-trove...
Walter E. Edge, U.S. Senator from New Jersey: "Mrs. Edge and I were slightly injured when hit by an automobile while we were crossing 16th Street, Washington, in a rainstorm. I sustained a deep cut over my right eye, requiring several stitches. Mrs. Edge, who escaped with bruises, was confined to our house for several days...