Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...humanity, and that all too rare literary (or actual) quality, sincerity. Without the fanfare of stylistic trumpets, the beating of bombastic tom-toms, or the clash of epigrammatic cymbals, Professor Perry goes on his quiet, unassuming way, marching steadily and with dignity, and with a slight twinkle in his eye, to his goal...
...serene may be accounted for, of course, in two ways. When he takes up his pen he has no axe to grind, no literary "set" to placate, no flickering reputation to blow into a flame, and no disingenuous criticism to fear. And then there is that twinkle of the eye, that ability to "see things steadily and see them whole", which precludes his ever entering into the hurly-burly of purely temporary arenas. Critical judgement has long since discovered and frequently used the word which best describes his writings; it is the word "universal...
Ever since his affair at Amherst Dr. Meiklejohn has figured prominently in the public eye, perhaps through the public eye, perhaps through the public taste for notoriety against which he is so firmly set. He has gained, apparently, the doubtful standing of a martyr to his idealism. Unfortunately he let his idealism get out of hand and his defense in the September Century Magazine--"To Whom Are We Responsible" is somewhat lame...
...good lady who sought to win the Scientific American prize for ghost raisers by making the quickness of the hand deceive the eye was put to ignominious rout by the forces of science. The fact that William James, the great philosopher and psychologist, sent through her a message to the world written in heliotrope-colored ink was enough to raise some doubt. Furthermore that this message was only a sigh--"How happy I should have been for such an opportunity as this"--instead of further elaborations of his stratum-of-energy theory or his plans for prevention of war must...
...gentle reader seeks pure water, the eagle pure air, the miser pure gold, so Frank A. Munsey seeks purity in the news; and yet- on the front page of his admirable newspaper your eye meets these soul-searing statements...