Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typical American family." He has a spry old mother (Florence Roberts) whose two loves are slang and coffee, a complacent wife (Spring Byington), five children who exemplify all the traditionally wholesome traits of youth. Bonnie (June Lang) is the 18-year-old apple of her father's eye except that she goes around with Clark Newall (Thomas Beck), spoiled son of the idle rich. Jack at 17 is absorbed in his first dinner jacket. Roger at 12 is a sharp little banker charging his brothers usury. Lucy at 10 yearns to be another Katharine Hepburn. Bobby at 5 toddles...
...Irish question, to wit: send the Irish to Holland, the Dutch to Ireland. The Dutch would soon make Ireland a garden. The Irish would soon forget to mend the dikes. Finally he reaches the heart of his cynically expedient philosophy by recalling that he started out as an eye-ear-nose-&-throat man, but soon shifted to psychiatry because "the poor have tonsils, but only the rich have souls...
...startling revelation, since one share of First National stock, now selling for $1,875 per share and paying $100 in dividends, represents a tidy little investment. During 1929 the stock sold above $8,500 per share, touched a Depression low of $800. What did catch Wall Street's eye was President Reynolds' comment: The number of one-share stock holders exceeds the total number of depositors. With deposits of $479,000,000, First National has less than 1,400 depositors, showing an average balance of at least $300,000. Fact is, First National is primarily a bank...
Because the region into which the young flyer had headed was so vast, unknown and impenetrable, search was from the beginning regarded as largely useless. Nonetheless, a few attempts were made, and all future scientific expeditions through the Guianas or Venezuela were asked to keep an eye open. After five years of silence even Pilot Redfern's wife and father believed him dead, had given up hope that any trace of him or his plane would ever be found...
Subjects of the 71 pieces in Inhale & Exhale range from the reminiscences of a (Saroyan) schoolboy to speculative statements on the (Saroyan) universe. But whether the scene is barbershop, vaudeville, honkytonk, back street or California valley, Saroyan's brooding eye sees more in it than would meet an ordinary fact-finding glance. He sits through a custard-pie cinecomedy "but God Al mighty it didn't seem funny to me and I sat in the darkness trying to laugh, but I kept thinking, 'Why are they wasting everything, why are they making all these mistakes...