Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-five hundred hens of the Cackle Corner Poultry Farm at Garrettsville, Ohio, cocked a frightened eye, ran wildly about the barnyard, bumped into, trampled on, injured one another. Next day they did not lay so many eggs. Reason: hens have ears (not visible to the casual observer) and they heard the ear-splitting roar of a low-flying airplane carrying U. S. mail. This roar came twice daily and began to interfere with the profits of the proprietor of the Cackle Corner Poultry Farm. So he wrote a protest last week to U. S. Postmaster General Harry...
Since the public eye must focus on the "Peace of God," and since the vox populi must cheer him, Signor Mussolini withdrew the competition of his own presence. Having greeted the Amir at the station, Il Duce slipped out a side door, sped away down back streets in his bullet-proof limousine. Meanwhile Amir and King stepped into an open carriage. Outriders cracked their whips. The pageant moved...
...played in the Arena yesterday afternoon, the Freshman skaters succeeded in netting a 12-0 victory over the schoolboys. In the warming up practice before the game, S. L. Batchelder '31, who was scheduled to play at right defense, received a slight injury, the puck hitting him in the eye, and was unable to take part in the game...
...Lampoon rose easily from the camp stool in his office, and greeted me with a firm grip and a twinkle in that eye...
...rooster fell over in the gutter, drunk. A motorist, thinking him dead, picked up the rooster and carried him home. Inside the house, the rooster's owner looked at the bird with disgust. "He's always getting like that," she said. The rooster winked one red eye, croaked, fell fast asleep...