Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of "Marie Galante" is an adventurous one. An orphan, Marie is the pet of the town which supports her by allowing her to deliver telegrams to congenial owners of little shops and cafes. Her innocent beauty strikes the eye of a sinister ship captain, who shanghai's her as soon as alcohol has relieved him of his scanty scruples. The ship turns out to be the vessel of a group whose every effort is bent upon keeping the powers at sword's edge, a sort of munitions-makers' fairy godmother. At the moment this virtuous band is plotting...
...second thought he decided to settle it on the spot, led with his right. While Overton flailed his arms wildly, his strapping opponent stood off, slugged fast & hard, soon dropped the Senator to his knees. Bellboys stepped in, carried the loser, bleeding from a gash over his right eye, to his room. Mourned Senator Overton : "I'm afraid that my punches were not very effective. My hands are pretty soft...
...Caetani, Burch & Hershey. It was making Prince Caetani rich when the War broke, but as soon as Italy joined the Allies he rushed home to serve his State. When he reached the front on the Dolomite Alps, 10,000 Italians had lost their lives trying to capture "The Eye of the Austrian Army," an outpost on the 9,000-foot cone-shaped mountain Col di Lana. This extended so far into the Italian line that Austrian observers could spy out every Italian thrust before it could get well started...
...make him a remarkable King of Siam. Later as a cadet in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, the future Possessor of the 24 Umbrellas (Siamese symbol of Kingship) learned a thing or two about soldiering which has helped him to ride out two revolutions. Last week the weak-eyed King Prajadhipok, condemned to rule, as it were, from the operating tables of his Western oculists, was recuperating in England from his latest operation for a cataract of the left eye when suddenly cables from Singapore flashed that he had abdicated...
...Jesus taught that human life is holy. Since milk means life to the human race, milk is also holy. Yes, I know how it smells and sticks, and how your shoes look around a dairy barn. I know the smart of a cow's tail swished in your eye on a hot summer night, and the sound of greedy hogs in a trough of sour milk. . . . I know the unholy feel of the business at the bottom. Still, we must insist that anything as essential to human life as milk is holy...