Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queried, First Woman Florence Ellinwood Allen explained with difficulty through her laughter: "I am farsighted in one eye and astigmatic in the other...
...trepidation among the musicians. He was a musical god, they had heard, a despot, a devil. He used no score even at rehearsal but he could detect the tiniest flaws. Once in Milan he had smashed an offending violin and a splinter flew up, hit the player in one eye. Toscanini's fabulous memory gave him his first chance to conduct. He had studied to be a 'cellist at the Parma Conservatory. As a 'cellist he was playing in Rio de Janeiro when one night the regular conductor was unable to appear. In desperation the players remembered...
...Lyman entered Mendota's hospital on Feb. 14, 1931 he was in good physical condition. Two weeks later he died, officially of bronchial pneumonia. But in the interval his wife and half-brother had seen him bound hand & foot, with two teeth knocked out, a gash over his eye, a lump on his chest and so badly bruised that he "looked like a raw piece of meat all over...
Despite his enthusiasm for the vigorous pioneer life which continually comes to the fore in descriptions such as that of Lewis as a "youthful captain. . . . . straight as a white oak. . . . . and steady of eye and trigger-finger", Mr. Wilson must have soon learned why others had not attempted to write a biography of his chosen hero. Lewis was far from being an outstanding man and except for his leadership of the Expedition of Discovery (whose success may with greater justice be attributed to William Clark, the second in command) which he received through the patronage of Thomas Jefferson...
Oliver found Carolyn more interesting than the hopeless case; soon they were in love. When Amy met a Tammany lawyer and made eyes at him, Castie soon got a parole and Amy's husband the horns he had long deserved. Oliver, torn between his ambition and Carolyn's faith in him, nearly went mad, thought of killing her. Instead, he sank his scruples and blackmailed his way into the Tammany trough, Castie, out of jail but still an unconsidered gangsterling, made another attempt to show the world by holding up his benefac tress, Amy, shot her by mistake...