Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth of furniture on the installment plan by signing as endorsers their promise to pay. The local Russian-Jewish newspaper, Novy Mir ("New World"), took on Comrade Trotsky as an assistant editor at $15 per week, and although his spoken English was extremely halting his sharp eye quickly took the measure of Manhattan, his sharper pen promptly produced this editorial in the most brilliant Bronstein vein...
Idea back of the Capitol Daily is to make it a sort of Congressman's trade-paper in which lobbyists will insert paid advertising to catch the legislative eye. Taxpayers, too, would have an interest in knowing, day by day, exactly what their elected representatives were doing in Washington's halls. Publisher with this notion was brisk young Henry Hayes ("Hank") Stansbury Jr., onetime New York American reporter and Paris correspondent for Universal Service. Subscription price: $15 for six months, free to Senators and Representatives. Competition in the field of specialized legislative reporting is David Lawrence...
...simpered so with Celia (Sophie Stewart) (and Celia simpered back) that one squirmed in one's seat. She acted the part of Ganymede with great unreality, squealing and mincing so that an unfortunate stage convention became even more flimsy and unenjoyable than it is ordinarily to the modern eye. The tedium of her performance was relieved in only a few places, such as her advice to the shepherdess Phoebe, and her arrangement of the triple marriage...
...With fire in each eye and papers in each hand...
Trained in guarding the reserved section, the usher's keen eye can discriminate between Sargent and Radcliffe students. "You can always tell a Sargent girl. She is not especially dignified and never wears a hat. The Radcliffe girls have a less carefree air and a more preoccupied look. But whether from Sargent or Radcliffe, any group of girls is bound to mean trouble for an usher. Girls may be quiet when they come in two's or three's, but a crowd of girls makes a greater racket than any group of male adolescents...