Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sorrowful way to execution. . . . Five rifles spat their leaden charge. Five bodies ln turn wilted to rise no more. . . ." Thus the South China Morning Post of Hongkong described, last week, the typically Chinese epilogue to an ugly two-day uprising at Canton, fomented by Soviet Russian Communists. The sole eye-witness account of this revolt to be cabled to the U. S. came from U. S. Consul at Canton Jay C. Huston. Cabled he: "Control of Canton was seized by so-called workers and soldiers, numbering about 5,000. The police were disarmed. . . "The rebels, who were comprised...
...current issue contains a bird's-eye view of the Business School, the Stadium and the new baseball cage; also a hither to unpublished photograph of the Harvard and Yale University crews taken at The Hotel Griswold several days before the annual race...
Detroit's chances were destroyed by a characteristic chirrup from Senator Moses of New Hampshire. With an eye cocked at wet Ontario across the river from Detroit, Senator Moses said: "It would be the first time anyone was ever nominated for President on foreign soil...
...spread the towel. Tracy, ignorant of the rules of the handkerchief trick, hit him a shattering blow behind the ear. Griffo was out. Griffo swelled to 235 pounds before he died. For years too fat for the handkerchief trick, he never lost the lightning of his hand and eye. To the day of his death he could catch a fly in flight between his thumb & forefinger. The day of his death, like most of the days of his life, found Griffo without a dime. Money was minted to his memory. In an imposing white metal casket, gift of Tex Rickard...
...comet, which was discovered a month ago in Australia and has been traced in its course north as far as Washington, D. C., will be most easily seen by the naked eye on Christmas day and will be the brightest one visible in 17 years...