Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the softness of bats, seven ghosts settled down on the flat roof of the Livadia Palace at Yalta. They found someone else already there: a statuesque female figure, crouching, with her eye glued to one of the holes in the roof (it had been through the Russian Revolution, three years of civil war, 21 years of Socialist reconstruction, the German invasion and the Russian reoccupation...
Cousins (both are great-grandchildren of Denmark's King Christian IX), they had met in London at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Since then, for 28 days they had dallied in London and Lausanne under the sympathetic eye of Michael's Mama, Queen Helen, while Michael shyly pursued his quest. At 24, Nan, as her family calls her, is a gay, humorous girl who dislikes big social functions, wears flat heels, likes to mimic people. During the war's early years she had studied commercial art in New York, where her mother, Princess Margrethe...
...race of boors about as uncouth, mean, and stupid as the hogs they seem chiefly to delight in." He reserved his greatest contempt for Englishmen. Looking down from the cupola of St. Paul's in London: " 'Now,' thought I, 'I have under my eye the greatest collection of blockheads and rascals, the greatest horde of pimps, prostitutes and bullies that the earth can show. . . . Was there ever such a cursed hole...
They told him, with almost embarrassing alacrity-in more than 350 letters. Many suggested that the Star-Times take the beam out of its own eye by cleaning up its comic strips. It couldn't very well do that, said the Star-Times lamely; if it dropped comic strips, they-and their readers-would be snapped up by competitors. It was no use complaining to the syndicates; their attitude was that most of their customers were satisfied, so take it or leave...
...first move in a proxy fight in which he hoped to oust Sosthenes Behn. Ryan estimated that he, his family and his friends already had behind them over 1,000,000 shares of the 6,399,002 shares of l.T. & T. stock. Behn, who always has a weather eye out for squalls ahead, suddenly changed his tack. Last week he offered to talk things over with the Ryan group face to face...