Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White's monstrosity of one full-face eye behind a profile nose and ear. Title: Memories of a Wildflower...
...their knees, kissed their feet. In Bolivia he was an unwilling witness of the rape of a 13-year-old Indian girl. In Chiapas, Mexico, he saw a boy of 18 shot in cold blood by an officer, left to die in the street. Prudent Traveler Tschiffely, his eye on his goal, knew it was useless to interfere in such cases...
...administration of capital crimes from local areas to Federal control, the Scottsboro boys can at the most hope for a commutation of sentence from electrocution of sentence from electrocution to life imprisonment. Until the prejudices permeating Southern thought are liquidated it will continue to be obvious that the eye-bandage Justice wears to insure an impartial weighing of the scales is made of transparent cheese-cloth...
...long before Chicago's red-headed organist had heard of Poet Sandburg. He was six years old, living in Grand Rapids where his father worked in the postoffice, when he showed an unusual talent for playing the piano. During the War, in spite of being blind in one eye, he was drafted for military service, set to playing the saxophone and the clarinet in a regimental band. Even then, at 22, Leo Sowerby was writing ambitious orchestral music. Conductor Frederick Stock invited him to attend the Chicago Symphony's performance of his Set of Four. He got leave...
When he found Adrienne again she was a rich widow, living a peaceful Protestant life. She found his beauty more fatal than ever. But Solal's eye was caught by her young friend, aristocratic Aude de Maussane, daughter of a French Senator. Solal impressed her father, became his secretary and won his permission to marry Aude-when in shuffled a grotesque delegation from Cephalonia and ruined everything. But only momentarily: at Aude's wedding with one of her own kind Solal dashed up and carried...