Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Desta Demtu would be an ideal Quartermaster General if Ethiopia had a modern army, but he is a poor strategist. He made the mistake of entrenching part of his troops. Under the pounding of Italian guns they fell back slowly at first, finally broke and ran. Unsupported by eye witnesses, Italians exultingly claimed that they had killed 5,000 Ethiopians, advanced 142 miles in six days-a manifest impossibility for an army in Ethiopia, though scouting tanks may have done so unopposed...
...most unfortunate setbacks had been suffered by outstanding journalists assigned to the North Front. Swizzling in Cairo recently and proclaiming, "I'm having a nervous breakdown!" famed Floyd Gibbons was all but unrecognizable when last photographed (see cut) except for his trademark, the patch across one blind eye. Others were arriving in Manhattan, London and Paris heart-shocked by the altitude; nausea-shocked by the fleas, flies and filth; sleepless from malaria and dysentery; jittering and at such low ebb that their journalistic employers sent them to secluded rest homes. On the subject of altitude able United Press European...
When inquisitive Ralph Teetor was 6, he tried to open a locked bookcase drawer with a penknife. The knife slipped. The blade jabbed into the corner of his right eye. Loss of sight in both eyes followed...
...pictures showed something like a glowing shoe-button. Then he turned the stuff over to Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry to be placed on exhibition. The museum furnished visitors with a magnifying glass by which to inspect the speck, too small to be seen with the naked eye...
...coldness of his eye and the hostile tilt of his cigar, National Committeeman Eugene Talmadge of Georgia stood out like a skeleton at a feast. Ever since President Roosevelt removed Georgia's relief administration from his hands, Governor Talmadge has called himself a "Jeffersonian," as distinguished from a "Jacksonian." Democrat. Popping up in Washington, Gene Talmadge ostentatiously absented himself from the Jack son Day Dinner at the Mayflower Hotel but showed up at the Willard next morning just before Boss Farley made his rousing speech...