Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...RUSSIA TIME, SEPT. 27: FAMED NEW YORK TIMES REQUIRES NO "WRITE UPS" TO SUPPORT THE NO. 1 U. S. NEWSPAPER'S REPUTATION. TIMES'S NEWSHAWKS DENNY AND DURANTY ARE ON EQUAL FOOTING. DENNY MOSCOW CORRESPONDENT SINCE 1934; DURANTY 1921 TO 1934, LATER PINCH-HITTING WHEN DENNY ABSENT, EYE-WITNESSING, VACATIONING, FRONT PAGING. TIME'S OPINION DENNY "CAREFUL, FRANK." COLUMNIST BROUN'S OPINION DURANTY "EDITORIALIGHT DISGUISED AS NEWS-HAWK." DURANTY OPINION DURANTY "FACTSEEKER BEHIND FACTS." DURANTY OPINION TIME "ACE PUNGENT NEWS-PEPPER, NOW ACCUSED RE-MISSWARD SALT OF TRUTH...
...account of the life and activities of The Professional Thief,* notable for the fact that it is not a thriller but a sociological document. Written by a thief named Chic Conwell and edited by onetime University of Chicago Sociologist Edwin H. Sutherland, it represents an informed thief's-eye view of a tight guild whose trades range from shoplifting to the suavities of the confidence man. Highlights...
...easiest place in the country in which to straighten out a case. . . No State is shunned more consistently by professionals [than Connecticut]. . . . There is comparatively little fixing of Federal agents. . . . There are probably many honest coppers, but if so most of them are out in the sticks. . . . When the Eye (Pinkertons) are brought in ... that is bad. They don't think of anything except catching thieves...
...conclusion of the Series, he learned that he had been traded to the Boston Braves. Said he: "Say, what does a fellow have to do to make good in this league! If I'd hit three home runs, they'd probably have sent me to the Three-Eye League...
...vocabulary of the children is small and poorly pronounced-because, said Dr. Blatz, the children make adequate signs to one another and are too smart to make needless sounds in addition. According to his practiced eye, "Annette is the social climber, Yvonne the mother, Cecile the unknown quantity, Emilie the happy-go-lucky, and Marie (smallest) the sympathetic...