Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the same week colleges all over the country will be staging their own demonstrations against war and confer- ences to arouse interest in peace. If these conferences find favor in the public eye and seem to have accomplished their purpose it is planned to hold a monster peace conference later in the year at a place yet to be designated...
...their right of succession to one of the few good thrones left in Europe. Last week it took a third grandson, 22-year-old Prince Bertil Gustaf Oscar Charles Eugen, Duke of Halland, Chevalier of the Order of the Seraphim, third son of the Crown Prince. Bertil's eye had fallen on one Christina Brambeck, yellow-haired young daughter of a Swedish Army captain. He had told his older brother Sigvard about it before Sigvard swept up his own commoner love, a German film extra, and beat Bertil to a London altar (TIME, March 5). Last week Swedish courtiers...
...York City parents clutched their newspapers in wide-eyed alarm one day last week. They had often suspected that teachers as a class were a little queer. But here in big black headlines was the appalling assertion that no less than 1,500 of New York's public school teachers were actually unbalanced. Many were hopelessly insane, some almost maniacs. Reading down, startled parents learned of a teacher so self-conscious that she had poked a chair-leg into a boy's eye and twisted it ''to distract attention of the class" from herself. Another...
...layman understands this word." In fact, said he, the whole rumpus was the fault of a bungling newshawk who thought he meant maniacs when he said some teachers were manic-depressives. And he had not said that a teacher twisted a chair-leg in a boy's eye. She had merely twisted it near the eye...
Henry Hobart Porter is 17 years older than handsome Seton but they see eye-to-eye on most questions. Last fortnight Brother Seton, who is president of National Distillers Products, also had something to say about taxes. He dusted off National Distillers' famed publicity stunt -the whiskey dividend of 1932-and used it once again, not to attract attention but to divert it. Both his customers and his Government were disgruntled with him and all other distillers over high liquor prices. So President Porter released a breakdown of the taxes and expenses which the stockholders had been asked...