Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared to beard the funny man in public. But someone blackened the Colorful Figure's eye one dark night in the washroom of a Long Island beach club, all in the true spirit of fascistic democracy. Although this fistic filibusterer, the Kingfish, in a spirit of pure research, has located him on a preferred list of J.P. Morgan, the financial wizard recently tried for financial witchcraft. Now in the egalitarian thinking of Mr. Long, to be on a Morgan list is to be Morgan-owned, and Mr. Morgan owns Collier's weekly. This was discovered by Huey when...
...spent four months in Washington without presenting his credentials to President Wilson, who was too ill to receive him. After England's general strike of 1926 Viscount Grey helped force the split which drove his onetime associate David Lloyd George out of the Liberal Party. Eye trouble which left him almost totally blind forced him to retire from politics, devote himself to fishing and duck raising on his 2,000 Northumberland acres. He is bitterly attacked in Lloyd George's memoirs, published on the day of his death.* Died. Elinor Medill Patterson, 78, daughter of the Chicago Tribune...
Come Easy (by Felicia Metcalfe, produced by Elizabeth Miele). The carefree spontaneity of this home-folks comedy, pat for stock company production, had to overcome Manhattan audiences' familiarity with too many identical predecessors. Situation: a slovenly Baltimore family with one respectable relative are happily starving and avoiding the eye of Work. Plot: a daughter gets an Italian count and the uncle gets $25,000 in the stockmarket. Then they lose the $25,000 in the stockmarket and the count is suspected of being a fake, writing a bad check, stealing the engagement pin he has given his fianc...
Dana had been managing editor of the potent Tribune under Horace Greeley but had resigned because of repeated differences. For Dana, the country boy who had clerked in a Buffalo store, gone to Harvard for three years until eye-strain forced him out, ownership of the Sun was a third career. (His second had been an Assistant Secretary of War.) Traveled, informed, scholarly, artistic, he gave the Sun his own peculiar tart philosophy. To people who objected to the things he printed, Dana retorted: "I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur...
...vacuum bottles, a fresh air mask, a siren and water-squirter to wake up the pilot if he dozed. He was going to sit over the oil tank, so that the uncomfortable heat would keep him awake. As he yelled good-by a fanatical gleam was in his eye...