Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baron Aloisi rolled his eye at the little black man in the corner...
...latest stunt in a lively series which has kept Texas in the nation's eye for weeks, the able publicity staff of the Texas Centennial Exposition not only sent the 21-year-old Texas Quadruplets, Mary, Mona, Leota & Roberta Keys, to visit the Dionne Quintuplets, but persuaded frosty-haired, stately old Pat Morris Neff, onetime (1921-25) Governor of Texas, to escort them. Pat Neff is president of Baptist Baylor University, where the four Keys Quadruplets are juniors. At Callander, Ont. the Keys' chorused, after seeing the Dionnes: "We are really terribly thrilled...
...Detroit housewife appeared with a black eye. One mother bounced 880 miles from Columbus on a motorcycle. Houston women, like all good Texans of 1936, boosted their State's Centennial by wearing cowboy hats. From San Francisco arrived a team calling itself the Dr. Painless Parkers,* arrayed in jockey caps, white satin blouses, black satin pants. When these and some 1,500 other women reached Omaha three weeks ago for the 19th annual tournament of the Women's International Bowling Congress Inc., the oldest competitor, Omaha's own 67-year-old Mrs. Nevada Helen Robertson Tillson, opened...
...America and Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler, Dorothy Harrison Eustis was given the National Institute of Social Sciences' gold medal for "distinguished services to humanity." Thus recognized by a public body for the first time was a unique educator. Founder and moving spirit of "The Seeing Eye" at Morristown, N. J., Dorothy Eustis for six years has been teaching dogs to lead blind men, blind men to follow dogs...
...Seeing Eye," Mrs. Eustis told the Institute last week, grew out of a breeding station for German shepherd dogs which she established in 1923 at Fortunate Fields, her comfortable estate near Vevey, Switzerland. At first, as a hobby, Mrs. Eustis and her friend,, Geneticist Elliott S. Humphrey, bred and trained dogs to patrol the Swiss borders for the customs office and the State police. So impressed was Mrs. Eustis by the "teachability" of German shepherds that in 1928 she wrote an article about her smart dogs for Saturday Evening Post, mentioned the fact that shepherds every day led several thousand...