Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When asked whether any police precautions against riots were being taken, Captain Donohue declared that the Square was the particular territory of Major Apted. "Mr. Apted says he has his eye on every man in the Square, and he has a special constable's license which gives him and his men practically as much power as the police," declared the captain, "so we leave him practically complete control in the Yard and the Square...
...combined persuasiveness of a social worker and the Greek Catholic priest, gradually began to tell with Vasko. Said he: "If the court says I must take out the child's eye, then all right. But my wife, she still is not willing." But one morning early, a milkman saw the Vaskos, with their three children, bundles and one suitcase, steal from their house, climb into a dilapidated automobile, flee town...
...York and Philadelphia medical schools would not admit Elizabeth Blackwell to study. But the Geneva (N. Y.) Medical School took her and she received her M. D. degree in 1849, causing much comment throughout the U. S. and Europe. While doing postgraduate obstetrical work in Paris she infected an eye, lost its sight. One of her associates in the New York Infirmary was Marie Zakrzewska who shortly went to Boston where in 1859 she founded the New England Hospital for Women & Children. Quakers supported both. One of Dr. Blackwell's vigorous helpers was her sister-in-law, Lucy Stone...
...Williams and Mr. Catchings joined forces and raised a shower of fireworks over Wall Street. Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. had (besides ventures in Chicago's Foreman Bank and the Detroit banking situation) acquired a stake in Pacific Coast utilities. Turning eastward Mr. Catchings cast his eye on the great North American...
...glad to run away from it the same night. In "The Fight" two respectable, middle-aged cousins who have never liked each other finally have the fistfight they should have got out of their systems when they were boys. Having given and received a black eye, a bloody nose, they part in silent enmity. "John thought his cousin Alfred never had been very nice. He hoped the punches he had got in on Alfred's body would make him so sore that in the morning on the train he would be unable to get out of his berth...