Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While many a young career diplomat bites his nails and pines for a squib about himself which may catch the eye of President Roosevelt or Secretary Hull, grandmotherly Madam Minister Ruth Bryan Owen continues to beat all State Department records for sustained publicity in her minor post in Denmark. Peering inquisitively into Mrs. Roosevelt's shrimp cocktail, Mrs. Owen lately achieved a pose of definite news-picture appeal (see cut). Last week "Big Ruth," as her three grandchildren call her, returned to her post, and a Danish despatch revealed how thoroughly Madam Minister has the local correspondents in hand...
Lurking in the upper right corner of the constellation Hercules last month was a nameless 14th-magnitude star far below the limit of naked-eye visibility. Fortnight ago a British amateur saw it in a violent eruption which, because of the star's distance, must have occurred about 1,500 years ago. It was throwing off two shells of tremendously hot gas at 1,000,000 m.p.h. By last week it had jumped 13 magnitudes to the first, acquired a name, Nova Herculis 1934. Its radiation had increased 200,000 times; it was among the twelve brightest stars...
Artist Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio, 40 years ago. At Ohio State University he was a brilliant bedraggled student. Few of his friends knew that at the age of eight his left eye had been shot out by a playful playmate with an arrow. Through the Peace Conference, Thurber served as a code clerk in the U. S. Embassy in Paris. In 1925 he was Nice editor of the Paris edition of the Chicago...
William Henry Dick of Memphis swept an expert eye up the mighty Mississippi, up all its northern tributaries, up the Wisconsin, the Minnesota, the Skunk, the Turkey, the Rum, the Black, the Zumbro, the Bad Axe, the Sauk. He saw streams swollen, lands saturated by heavy rains, abnormally early snows. If spring rains should be torrential...
...week, the U. S. art season was at its peak. In Manhattan there were no less than 70 exhibitions in progress. The public could see and buy practically anything it wanted. On 57th Street Edward Bruce was exhibiting the landscape technique and Chinese perspective he developed under the watchful eye of Maurice Sterne. Sir Francis Rose, Gertrude Stein's latest painter-protege, was showing his sultry canvases. The Museum of Modern Art was aflame with Van Goghs, Cezannes, Toulouse-Lautrecs. At the New School for Social Research Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Robert Brackman, John Sloan and Alexander Brook were impressing their pupils...