Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...semi-finals next day, McGrath's victory over Vines proved definitely that he is not a freakish flash-in-the-pan. but the rarest thing in tennis-an utterly unorthodox player who is also a superlatively good one. Unable to give eye-witness reports of McGrath or to publish adequate photographs of him, U. S. tennis writers had to rely on descriptions by U. S. players who had seen him in action. Said Wilmer Allison: "McGrath will go right to the top with that funny backhand. I don't know who is going to beat...
...sorrier sight than a clergyman errant, about to be unfrocked. From his embarrassing plight the pious eye is usually averted, but a congregation in Muncie, Ind. last week found this impossible. As Sunday evening service was about to begin, 50 people sat uneasily in Madison Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Behind the pulpit stood their 55-year-old pastor. Rev. G. Lemuel Conway, tall, spare, grim-faced, with lank grey locks falling over his high forehead and gold teeth glinting between thin lips. That morning Mr. Conway had announced that Willard F. Aurand, the choirmaster, would not be present...
...whose only qualification for the part is a completely bald head. May Robson, in the part of one of Annie's numerous sponsors, is the only redeeming feature. And those who are touched by sweet and sentimental little children may be able to squeeze a bit of eye-moisture out of Buster Phelps saying his prayers at Grandma's knee. But the show as a whole is criminally dull...
...indeed are the aspiring playwrights who would not give their eye teeth to be in Noel Coward's tan buckskin shoes. Aged 33, he has written or collaborated on 23 plays and musicomedies since 1920. One out of three have been huge successes. At one time he had five of his works running in London during a single season, a record equaled only by the late Edgar Wallace. A few blocks away from the Manhattan theatre housing his Design For Living, last week a cinemansion was packing in well-bred audiences who seldom stoop to cinema, to witness Cavalcade...
...time to read long press stories, especially if they are speculative and require thoughtful analysis, and even when he does he is left feeling doubtful about their authenticity because they are in a sheet open to the public for a few pennies. His ears 'Relieve more than his eyes and the gossip of a board meeting he is apt to peddle as "gospel" among his flattering cronies. He honestly thinks that Washington is teeming with "inside stuff" which the Press misses and he, as an able citizen, should have. But the Washington scene as it strikes his untrained eye...