Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cheering Britons, pack-jammed as far as the eye could see, greeted Emperor Haile Selassie when he arrived in London praising the King and saying he was sure he would get justice (TIME, June 15). Last week special London police squads were assigned to handle expected crowds at His Majesty's departure. During the month, however, British public opinion had changed so completely that scarcely 50 people were on hand to wave good-by to the Emperor's first-class Pullman. He took second-class on reaching the Continent and as his Geneva-bound train halted at Paris...
Nazi newsorgans, normally obliged to be as hostile to Negroes as to Jews, were permitted to quote Schmeling as saying: "Louis is a great boxer with a perfect eye who never misses an opening." While Mother Schmeling, her son and daughter-in-law were lunching festively with Adolf Hitler, the Party's afternoon newsorgan Der Angriff printed a special edition explaining that Louis was defeated because before the fight Schmeling "was allowed to speak with the Realmleader and his Ministers, and from that moment Schmeling's will for victory was boundless...
...National Steel Corp.'s Chairman Ernest Tener Weir is strong for hardboiled, hard-driving executives who, like himself, got their higher education at an open-hearth furnace, not in a classroom. Long has he had his eye on Thomas E. Millsop, who was holding down a job in a steel mill at 15. Last week Mr. Weir upped redhaired, jut-jawed...
...Subbayah Pullavar, a gaunt, wiry Yogi, told Mr. Plunkett he had been "levitating" for 20 years, that his family had been doing it for hundreds. Mr. Plunkett was impressed by Subbayah's "long hair hanging down over his shoulders, a drooping mustache and a wild look in his eye." Asked if pictures of his work might be taken, Subbayah consented freely...
...turned out were affected, pompous, unreadable. When she slapped out the 250,000 words of her Memoirs for a despicable purpose, writing about the life she knew best in language that was appropriate to it, she revealed a genuine literary ability, a keen sense of character, a sharp eye for the stupidities of the gentlemen who had been her friends and customers...