Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the King of England may not enter the House of Commons, it was the first budget speech that Edward VIII has missed in years. Every visitors' gallery was jammed with Britain's swankest. With one eye cocked at the clock the Chancellor of the Exchequer began to talk. One generality followed another. "Perhaps I may liken this budget," said he, "to the uncertain glory of an April day." (Haw! Haw! in the galleries...
...Roman Campagna broke through the guards, nearly mobbed the Dictator. All their noses were carefully powdered and some had lacquered finger nails. II Duce was delighted. From one he took a bunch of flowers; another he chucked under the chin; at a third he cocked a roguish eye. In the best of moods he invited all the foreign correspondents present to lunch. In a body they moved on to a dusty little trattoria whose proprietor, trembling with excitement, rushed from house to house for extra supplies. The little inn's solitary waiter nearly died of stage fright...
Strangest sculpture of the show is able Warren Wheelock's wooden head of William Randolph Hearst from whose eye-sockets shockingly jut two red corks. Title: Hearst Sees...
Pending tabulation of the results of his test, Dr. Clark described some of the effects which 54½ sleepless hours had on his students: "The faculty which suffers most ... is vision. The boys just couldn't see clearly, their notions of perspective were bad, their eye movements slow and their judgment of color erratic. Muscular coordination was low, tests of writing, aiming a gun, and hitting a nail on the head showing a great loss of accuracy. But there were periods when the boys seemed to make brief comebacks to alertness, something like 'second wind...
...some of those who have a story to tell will survive." In 1933 he left Germany, is now, in company with every first-rate German writer, in exile. With his wife and two sons Arnold Zweig lives at Haifa, in Palestine, works as laboriously as his one remaining good eye will permit, to tell the truth about the education he has survived...