Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eye, tooth and stoop of shoulder was Actor George Arliss, now 60, foreordained to be a successful Shylock. The bond between William Shakespeare and a host of U. S. schoolteachers was further assurance that Mr. Arliss, after his tours in The Green Goddess and Old English, could take out The Merchant of Venice and get home a happier, wealthier man, which is what he was when he returned to Manhattan last week from a five-month tour that began in Syracuse and ended, via San Francisco, in Newark...
...offering at the Keith Memorial Theatre is none other than the celebrated and vibrating purveyor of red and white heat, Gilda Gray. And for those who like their entertainment steaming Gilda is sure to satisfy. Among other things she gives an oriental dance which is very pleasing to the eye, and she is backed by a fine chorus...
...Emmett Lawrence's strange gift," says Sculptor Barnard, "comes to perhaps one man in many thousands. He obeyed the laws of gravity with uncanny instinct, toiled always with supreme patience, and was one of the finest characters I have ever known. He could judge by his eye, to the fraction of an inch, if a statue weighing tons was off balance. . . Some day I hope to do something in the way of a memorial...
...Eye" (no other name) Connelly, the traveling nuisance who crashes gates and whose solitary optic is glaucous, lurked by the ringside. Amid such distinguished company he had wished to appear at his best, and, for perhaps the first time in his life, wore a dinner jacket, white gloves, carried a cane. Also, over his non-existent eye, he wore a monocle. The unfortunate thing was that, having scaled the heights of sartorial formality, "One Eye" found that almost all the other gentlemen present were wearing white flannels, dark blue coats...
...Eye" crashed the Fitzsimmons-Jeffries fight (1899) by exchanging a basket of stage money lor a basket of tickets. He saw the Jimmy Gardiner-Tommy Devine fight in a Milwaukee Armory (1903) from a steel girder to which he strapped himself early in the morning before the fight. He crashed the Dempsey-Gibbons fight in Shelby, Montana (1923), by riding into the hot arena in a covered ice wagon...