Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lockwood "remonstrated"' with him to let the drunk alone. The drunk caterwauled. The guardsman knocked the drunk down, broke his eyeglasses. Mr. Lockwood rushed up. The guardsman spanked Mrs. Lockwood with the flat of his sabre. Husband Lockwood punched the guardsman's eye. More green and yellow men appeared, took the five to Palma's jail in the ruins of a medieval monastery. Charge: the military offense of assaulting a Civil Guard. Minimum penalty if convicted by a military court: five years. Two of the five prisoners, including Rutherford Fullerton, were held only as witnesses...
...suffered a nervous breakdown. Died. Dr. Frederick Henry Baetjer, 58, famed x-ray pioneer, professor of roentgenology at Johns Hopkins University; of long-standing necrosis caused by x-ray burns; in Catonsville, Md. He began his experiments before the advent of modern protective devices, by 1909 had lost an eye, four fingers. Surgeons had to keep whittling at his ravaged body, performed 73 operations besides innumerable skin grafts...
...fiercely called on President Roosevelt for Federal troops to subdue the United Mine Workers under John Mitchell. Disgruntled by the settlement of the strike, he gave up active supervision of his properties, moved to Manhattan. In 1907 he went totally blind, later recovered the use of his left eye. Good friend of J. Pierpont Morgan, he was in the Morgan offices when a bomb explosion rocked the building in 1920, was gashed by flying glass. At No. 1060 Fifth Avenue he owned one of the world's largest private apartments (45 rooms. 22 baths), lived there alone after...
...didn't take more than the opening week to produce one bitter disappointmentfl A sympathetic Harvard coed cast her eye upon a certain young government professor whose complacent expression and sardonic mouth she was convinced were caused by past disappointment. A sympathetic Harvard coed cast were, however, ruthlessly shattered by the unexpected news that he was happily married:--In the West that would never be considered the last white line...
...trade with Russia was officially promoted when last fortnight Reconstruction Finance Corp. made some $4,000,000 available for exporting cotton to U. S. S. R. And for the first time in 16 years a U. S. Minister had definite instructions from the White House to keep his eye peeled to the possibilities of resuming U. S.-Soviet relations when last week Laurence Adolf Steinhardt sailed out of New York to assume his new looking & listening post at Stockholm...