Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reduction of taxation which is apparent to the naked eye in England. (P. 9.) Rafael Sabatini's pro-pirate propaganda...
...boarding a street-car during the rush-hours, I have found it possible to avoid the conductor's eye and thus arrive free in Boston, then, by coming forward boldly and demanding a transfer, it is equally easy to obtain return passage to Cambridge...
...following estimates of books most in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: THE CAPTAIN'S DOLL?D. H. Law-rence?Seltzerr ($2.00). This volume contains three long stories, each a vivid symbolic study of a character caught in the spiritual unrest following the war. In The Captain's Doll an Austrian countess is forced to earn her living by making doll-figures, one of a Scotch captain whom she marries after the death of his wife. The doll symbolizes the fact that even an adoring wife tries to "make a doll...
...Earth" makes no claim to subtlety, to artistic discrimination, to any of the refinements of effete European culture; it simply exults with three rings and a side show in being bigger, faster, more dangerous and more defiant of natural law than any entertainment ever before presented to the human eye. Its tent is "the greatest stretch of canvas ever raised," its acrobats are "the greatest aggregation of mid-aerial gymnasts in the world," its tigers are "the greatest and most thrilling wild animals ever offered in this or any other country" and its elephants are"the biggest brutes that breathe...
...humorist is usually a passing fancy with the public. His brand of wit catches the popular eye, holds it for a space, then is forgotten, as a new humorist comes along with a new method of twisting his phrases, of rolling his tongue or of winking his eye. Stephen Leacock's popularity has lasted longer than most. From Literary Lapses to My Discovery of England his books have been funny with a certain consistency. Canadian by birth, professor of political economy by profession, a raconteur who has only one equal in my experience [Irvin Cobb], he is a solid, jolly...