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Word: eye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...endowed with a Fascist salute. After that petered out, Mr. Gilbert told the committee, he met a "medium-sized" man named George Rice who said he was a bodyguard-waiter for the Communistic plotters within Manhattan's Harmonie Club (for rich Jews).* "George Rice" told Dudley Gilbert eye-popping stories about the coming revolution. Dudley Gilbert hastened to build himself a retreat in the fastnesses of the Kentucky mountains, a place to hide himself and family from the dread Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTOLERANCE: Boo! | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...deputy clerk droned "His Majesty doth assent." But as a warning that no individual may supersede Parliament, Ottawa's seven old men of the Supreme Court filed into the Senate chamber and plumped down on a big circular woolsack, from which they could symbolically keep an eye on everyone. After that Their Majesties received the 70-odd reporters covering their trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Royal Visit | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

LONDON--The royal oculist was summoned to examine Queen Mary today after disclosure that she had suffered a "painful injury to one eye," the left one, when a truck loaded with affraid stream smashed into and overturned her automobile yesterday...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 5/25/1939 | See Source »

...years he has lived in a big, grey, barnlike house, once a boys' school, on a Connecticut hilltop overlooking the Housatonic River. Part of each winter he usually spends in Washington, D. C., where he visits his good friends, Senator George Norris and Secretary Wallace, keeps a sharp eye on the latest fast moves of legislators. In summer he manages his two dairy farms, calls them "a sheet anchor against inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boom to Gloom | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Newark, N. J., Mrs. Frances MacFarquhar, suing for divorce, submitted her diary in evidence. Excerpts: "January 28-Blackened my eye because I bought a fifteen-cent cake and did not turn over the change; March 13-He tripped me and tried to kick me through a window; March 26-He knocked me into the bathtub; June 12-He chased me with a hammer. . . ." Plaintiff MacFarquhar got the divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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