Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turning point in U. S. history. For 45 minutes he spoke, sometimes allowing his voice to swell in a sonorous diapason, sometimes letting it sink low as he leaned forward confidentially over the desk. In the glare of klieg lights which made the large mole over his left eye stand out in pitiless relief, he turned the pages of his manuscript with shaking fingers. Time & again his visible audience burst into applause, cheers and halloos as if at a political rally. When they did so, without looking down, the President grabbed a glass of water standing at his elbow, took...
Iran's vigilant eye last week remained cocked with suspicious disapproval upon the natives of remote Elkton, Md., in which hamlet the Envoy Extraordinary and the Minister Plenipotentiary of Iran, the Great Ghaffar Khan Djalal, was grossly insulted and subjected to being manacled like a criminal (TIME, Dec. 9). The natives who thus violated international comity contended that the Great Khan's car had been speeding. When he produced his diplomatic credentials, saying "I am the Minister of Iran," they, in abysmal ignorance, exclaimed: "Aw, this guy is nothing but a preacher." The Great Khan was avenged...
...totaled $250,000 by 1912, and such numbers as 0 Promise Me and Brown October Ale kept him in the highest bracket of the American Society of Composers, Authors " Publishers until his death. Other Smith productions: Victor Herbert's The Fortune Tetter, The Serenade, The Idol's Eye, Irving Berlin's Watch Your Step, Stop! Look! Listen!, Franz Lehar's Land of Smiles...
...profit, he was shipped last July to the Hanover Zoo. Roland was originally a little smaller (three tons) than Goliath. For years he has been wasting slowly away. Lately he had begun to lose 10 lb. a day and to turn up a face of monstrous grief, one eye closed, the other alert and blue (see cut). Last week Berlin Zoogoers attributed Roland's death to a heart broken by loneliness. Berlin doctors, however, set about knifing through a hide as thick as a truck tire for some more realistic reason for his demise...
...proving the impossibility of testing anti-meningitis serum on rabbits and guinea pigs. Night before her appearance she died of meningitis contracted when a guinea pig, into whose head she was injecting virulent meningitis germs, jerked out of her hands. The meningitis germs squirted into Miss Pabst's eye, sped to her brain, killed her in eight days, earned her a medical martyr's kudos...