Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...household will be complete without his latest invention: the "Readie" (pronounced reedy). This is a gadget to let people read without turning a page. Books will be printed on long tapes, run through a machine. The strips will be adjustable to the reader's normal eye-speed. Maybe even Readies will be too much trouble for lazy readers. If so, Sherover would have a voice ("Why not Lowell Thomas?") fill the room, reading aloud...
Ottawa to Oslo. Canada's Barbara Ann Scott was the girl everybody's eyes were on. Like a wind-whipped prairie fire, her fame has swept eastward from Ottawa to London and Oslo; a few sparks were even observed in Hollywood. In Prague, her photograph was printed in local newspapers 17 times in three days-Rita Hayworth, in Prague recently, got her picture in the paper only eight times. Back home in Ottawa, where a whole Dominion gurgles appreciatively every time Barbara Ann winks an eye, the wheels of government once stopped while the Canadian House of Commons...
Hubard's past was as shadowy as his art. He assured his Richmond neighbors that he was "an Englishman of good descent." Looking at his tangled hair and piercing eye, people thought he might be a gypsy. He had arrived in Manhattan at 17, with one Mr. Smith who set him up as a silhouettist on Broadway. Admission to the "Hubard Gallery" (50) had entitled visitors to "see the Exhibition and obtain a correct Likeness in Bust cut by Master Hubard who without the least aid from Drawing Machine or any kind of outline but merely by a glance...
...Jehovah and the Sixth Form (oldest) boys as the Judges in Israel. He was convinced that education's primary task was the making of a Christian gentleman, not the development of an intellectual. Arnold did his part: searing sermons in chapel about evil and temptation, a terrible eye fixed on the "Close" (school grounds) beneath his window. Arnold's Rugby was the Rugby of "fagging" and Tom Brown's School Days...
Drab as it is, indeed, Night Song earns a modest but honorable corner in movie history on two counts. A piece of music is played straight through without cuts or that customary desperate wandering of the camera's eye which suggests that it hates music and is bored sick. And for once a movie set of Carnegie Hall does not look like a set for Dante's Purgatorio sculptured out of Ivory Soap by Norman Bel Geddes. With electrifying effectiveness, it just looks like Carnegie Hall...