Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During two terms as county attorney in the troubled days of the depression, he showed a particular genius for settling labor disturbances. He also turned a clear and critical eye on the left-wingers who composed Minnesota's uproarious Farmer-Labor Administration. He decided that a Stassen Administration could do better. He was the state's outstanding Republican at 29, and he was governor...
...Highway 40, west of Denver, the Colorado State Highway Department put up a regulation bull's-eye target next to a curve sign, planned to put up more if the first one diverted the "chowderheads with guns" who shoot up 3,000 road signs annually...
...Stalling! Stalling!" The day before the matches, the U.S. girls practiced under a blazing sun on the Forest Hills (L.I.) courts, subject to the stern eye and acid comments of Cup Donor Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. When one of them loitered over a courtside conversation, Mrs. Wightman snapped: "Stalling! Stalling!" Sighed blonde Jean Bostock, as she watched Margaret Osborne: "I'll be lucky to even get a point!" The British girls had been experimenting with U.S. menus. Pert Betty Hilton was feeling poorly. "It's because of the cream puffs," confided Teammate Kay Stammers Menzies...
With just the merest hint of deviltry in his roving eye, Vag waited for the big event of the day at Braves Field. It was Reading Period, but so what! Encased in his now rather shoddy seersucker jacket, with a Chesterfield protruding not at all jauntily from his mouth, he waited while a man in a double-breasted suit walked onto the field. Today, of all things foolish, they were going to raffle off a '47 Packard, and what was more silly, he was waiting around on the hope that he would win it. Of course he never won anything...
...Seeing Eye. Sedoi scores his biggest hits with nicely blended combinations of patriotism, sentiment, wartime allusions and love. Like most U.S. tunesmiths, he writes only the music, leaves the lyrics to more lyrical minds. Sample...