Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been noticing a gleam in the Old Woman's eyes for some time," he confided. "She watches me as I shave, as I light my pipe, as I tie my tie; she hangs around me all the time and keeps glancing into her compact mirror, starting at her profile on the side that doesn't show the huge wen on her nose, patting the stringy mass of gray hair that is left on the top of her head. Poor thing! She seems worried every time I go out. As a matter of fact she's taken to hiding my cane...
...official stenographers also walked out, Félix began his speech, was silenced only when Chamber functionaries switched out all the lights. Next day Félix, after repeatedly failing to catch the President's eye, turned upon a Cabinet member and snarled, "Monsieur le Ministre, either you understand me and name a committee to investigate, or you do not understand me and have no right to occupy your post...
Superintendent John C. Plumb of Woodlawn (N. Y.) Cemetery was delighted. With a professional eye he inspected the plot of real grass, the border of daffodils, the flowering dogwood blossoms, the background of evergreens and the three tombstones that they set off. To Ernest Leland, No. I tombstone designer in the U. S., he cried...
...dimmed eye, at a thought of the dear old mother...
...particularly on the shape of the cosmos, and he is glad to have other mathematicians drop in for a little tinkering. Modern relativity theory in fact owes a great deal to the carpentry of Weyl, Milne, Lemaitre, Born, Eddington, Tolman and others. But the good professor keeps a sharp eye on the craftsmanship of his colleagues...