Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That fact accounted for the columns and columns of space the Press of the country gave last week to the bruise which Huey Pierce Long, Louisiana's tousle-headed, button-nosed "Kingfish," received on his left eye in the washroom of the Sands Point Bath Club fortnight...
...When he felt what was happening to his leg the young man wheeled around, drove his knuckles with all his might into the offender's face. The Senator staggered back groggily, brought up against the washbasins. Blood streamed down his face from a cut over his left eye. Attendants and friends put him back on his feet, iced his eye, buttoned him up, ushered him from the club. He was put into a taxicab, sent back to his Manhattan hotel where a house physician patched...
...questioned Russell Sherwood, Walker's fiscal agent, nine dif- ferent times without eliciting sufficient evidence to charge a crime. Sherwood stood his ground on the time-honored formula that to answer questions might tend to incriminate him. Resurrection of the Walker case would have been a troublesome black eye for Tammany's campaign...
Tammany was saved from a second black eye when the New York County grand jury failed to indict anyone on Attorney Medalie's charge that he knew four Tammany district leaders allied with racketeers. On its own initiative the grand jury had elected to investigate this charge, had heard the Federal attorney name names. Last week it reported that Mr. Medalie "frankly said he had no evidence of crime against any person but did mention certain matters he thought might be further investigated." That further investigation the jury passed on to State Attorney General Bennett, good Brooklyn Democrat...
...Tokyo on Sept. 26, 1904 Yakumo Koizumi died, leaving four children, three of whom still live in his house. An invalid for several years before his death, he had been blind in one eye since he was 16, was painfully nearsighted in the other. As his sight failed he developed a hyper-acute sense of smell. It was Lafcadio Hearn's boast that he could smell the difference between a brunette and a blonde...