Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great satisfaction this soon attracted the eye of one of the proctors. I had a speech all prepared. I was only waiting for a chance to get up and denounce them, calling the attention of everyone to the fact that I had a perfect right to study in the room and that I was not even registered in the class taking the examination...
...airplane was hailed as something new, but as an advertising medium it is doomed to be short-lived. The writing is soon whisked away by the wind, and few will raise a jaded eye at the expense of a rheumatic neck to watch the gyrations of an airplane which has become a commonplace. Something more than mere novelty is demanded of the new advertising...
Once again the groupings had an incomparable finish and beauty. Scene followed scene in which the actors were placed in positions that formed triangles. The eye would no sooner become conscious of such a grouping before it was gone, and apparently without intention, another and still more interesting arrangement was effected. The mob in the third act was the best handled stage mob that I have ever seen. There was limitless life to it. Characters, regardless of importance, had individual "business" to do. The scenes that remain indelibly on the mind after seeing "The Lower Depths" were...
...cablegram, but it is presumed that he is the Rev. T. D. Anderson, an English clergyman and amateur astronomer. The new star was situated in the constellation Cygnus, and was of the fifth magnitude, or in other words just about bright enough to be seen with the naked eye under very favorable conditions. The cablegram was relayed to the University by the Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams at Copenhagen, Denmark...
...Hillyer retired to the pantry and opened Mr. Ince's cabinet of well-aged ingredients. He poured in a bit of ruffled silk ancestry in the French Court. His eye fell on the " Southern Stuff" label and jumped his story a few hundred years. He injected a shot of chorus girls in' a Southern mansion and three fingers of " Poor White " mountain life. He stirred in a murder and falsely accused his hero. A hot bit from the "Forest Fire" cruet and a dash of "Blood Hounds" finished the job. Shaking it up with a few negligible actors...