Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nobody notices human suffering in all this fuss about machinery and the Five-Year-Plan," complained a flashing-eyed non-Communist oldster. "The things I fought for - Freedom, Equality. Happiness - somehow the Revolution has lost sight of them!" No grumbler is Bomb Boy Michael Frolenko. ancient, grizzled Chief Assassin (there were 20) of Tsar Alexander II, who "liberated"' Russia's 20,000.000 serfs. After the bombing "the Emperor . . . presented a terrific sight," writes his eyewitness-nephew, Grand Duke Alexander, "his right leg torn off, his left leg shattered, innumerable wounds all over his head and face. One eye...
...life taking care of a neurotic mother when she might be enjoying the gayety of a honeymoon in Siberia. So strong is the hold of Mrs. Davis (Jean Adair) on her daughter Cora (Katherine Alexander) that Fred Barton (Harvey Stephens) has to do his courting under her watchful eye. When Cora starts for a dance with him Mrs. Davis collapses in the footlights. During the entire third act Mrs. Davis lies unconscious on a sofa in full view of the audience while other members of the household leave Cora to care for her. When the curtain goes down Mrs. Davis...
Rubens, not an eye-witness of the Cuban fighting, gives a full, extremely pro-Cuban account of it, compares it favorably with the U. S. War of Independence. According to his figures, the Spanish army finally numbered 200,000 regulars, but it could never come to grips with the ragged, badly-armed Cuban guerrillas, whose policy was never to fight a decisive battle but to wear down the enemy. General Gomez once stated his plan of campaign for the rainy season: "I am going to make the Spanish columns move, move constantly; and I count upon my three important allies...
...Frankie Parker: "It was in 1927 that Frankie Parker came into my life. Little shaver, thin, puny, but quiet and attentive. . . . He had the best eye for a moving ball I've ever seen. . . . It took four years of the hardest work to get the boy's title. . . . Last year the wonder boy never lost a set. . . . He is to be the best of the pack...
...maps are often effective, enlightening, sometimes merely unscientific and cheap, for example a drawing of Fujiyama with a tree in the foreground captioned "The Old Japan"; the same drawing with a cannon substituted for the tree, captioned "The New Japan." Author Van Loon's bright chapter headings catch the eye, may engage many a reader: "Bulgaria, the soundest of all Balkan countries, whose butterfly-collecting King bet on the wrong horse during the Great War and suffered the consequences"; "Rumania, a country which has oil and a royal family...