Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl was dragged from cabaret to cabaret, forced to stand on the stage of each while she was made the butt of vile abuse. No Briton in any of the cabarets was so foolish as to challenge the Storm Troopers at the time but scores of Britons wrote scorching eye-witness letters next day, thoroughly scared the Municipality of Nuremberg which looks to tourists for revenue...
...Sermon on the Mount. Christ referred to the Mosaic Law throughout, expounding and amplifying it. In several cases He quoted the words of Moses and set against them His own principles, thus: "Ye have heard that it hath been said. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say unto you. That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. . . . Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shall love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your...
...GIMLET EYE: ADVENTURES OF SMEDLEY D. BUTLER-as told to Lowell Thomas-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.75). Now that Major-General Smedley Darlington Butler has retired, the U. S. Marine Corps is not so often in the news. Few soldiers have been more tanned by the limelight. A fighter who enjoys his reputation, General Butler started scrapping early in life and has continued to fight it out on that line, letting the news stories fall where they may. With the help of Ghost-Writer Lowell Thomas he has laid all his scraps end to end, called it a life. Born a Pennsylvania...
Silvery-haired Isabella Greenway has a clean outdoor look about her. She uses neither rouge nor lipstick. She is most at home in the saddle. She has an expert eye for cattle. No Roosevelt goes West without stopping off to visit her at Tucson or Williams. An able Democrat, she has been Arizona's national committeewoman since 1928. At the Chicago convention last year she seconded the Roosevelt nomination and had a large hand in engineering the McAdoo switch. Her House seat will be her first public office...
...Transcript in 1897. New England came to know "Churchman" Fletcher well. Apocryphal perhaps but typical is the story of the provincial lady who wrote in to say her 25-year-old son was spending a week in Boston, would the Churchman be good enough to keep an eye on him? In the Transcript office Mr. Fletcher is famed for his eyeshades-envelopes stuck between his temples and the bows of his spectacles. He is a stubble-bearded, genteel, firm believer in oldtime Christianity and Prohibition. He is a baseball addict, fond of plucking batting averages from his capacious memory...