Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year's economy budget. Lord Trenchard discovered that the Police Federation, an organization of policemen covering all Britain, was ''deliberately fomenting discontent against the government." The Cabinet meeting hurriedly prepared a bill to "curb hotheads among the police." The 86% of unsolved burglaries was a black-eye to Scotland Yard's reputation. Lord Trenchard made three suggestions: removal of the rule providing that higher police officers must first pass through the ranks; greater insistence on the educational qualifications of candidates: establishment of a "police college" to train promising younger men on the force...
...official who neither marched with the White Guard nor reviewed them from the Presidential Palace was Premier and Minister of the Interior Horacio Hevia. Possibly with an eye on the Presidency himself, he resigned in protest at the parade...
...punctuated by shots in which the screen goes black to conceal everything except Director Stephen Roberts' prudence-is more effective than might have been expected. It is a dingy and violent melodrama, more explicit: about macabre aspects of sex than any previous products of Hollywood. Naturally enough Pop-Eye, the least lovable character in Sanctuary, docs not appear at all in The Story of Temple Drake. Temple is raped by the gangster who, in the book, was merely Pop-Eye's assistant. She takes a liking to him forthwith, accompanies him from the ramshackle 'leggers hideaway where...
...command, with more care than most would be bothered to employ, Author Aiken's second novel is a distinct addition to U. S. letters. In any list of ten best U. S. novels of the year, Great Circle would have to have a place. Hero Andrew ("One-Eye") Gather is not prepossessing at first sight. A private tutor in Cambridge, Mass., Harvard graduate, intellectual in his late 30's, with a glass eye (unexplained), an increasingly unhappy marriage and a correspondingly increasing tendency to drunkenness, he has in his cosmos not only too much ego but too much...
...Spaniards stampeded 1,500 bulls against the buccaneers: Morgan's men indulged in no matadorean antics, routed the bulls with a musket volley. Morgan's only serious repulse, says Biographer Roberts, was after the taking of Panama, when one of the beauteous captives caught his weather eye. He laid siege to her virtue by attrition and guile, but did not carry her, buccaneer-like, by storm. When she held out longer than his patience, he sent her back to her people...