Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room, bright with embroidered cushions, painted lacquer ware and bucolic scrolls, Chen seems more like a retired and fastidious professor than the politician he is. At dinner, in accordance with the ceremonial niceties of cheng, he likes to discourse on the threefold appeal of Chinese cuisine-color, for the eye; smell, for the nostrils; taste, for the tongue. He is getting plump, is 20 pounds heavier than when he battled Communists. He is a family man. Recently, while his hospitable, bespectacled wife and four sprouting children looked on, Chen displayed a bit of simple Western technology he had learned. Puffing...
...Luck Rat, Rotten Eye Creek: Charlie will see the doctor today and I think he will be going back with me tonight. (Signed) John Vetnelsi...
Anyone but the incorrigibly stuffy would certainly find Miro a delight to the eye, even if some would shy at calling his work great. Miro himself, who should know, does not consider his art abstract, as the critics think. "As a matter of fact," he insists, "I am attaching more and more importance to the subject matter of my work. To me it seems vital that a rich and robust theme should be present to give the spectator an immediate blow between the eyes...
...leave Harry and find a tired-looking, silver-haired broker resting for another go at the pit. What was all the excitement about today? He keeps an eye on the pit and says: 'It's a nervous market. On Wednesday the Government came back into the cash wheat market after being out for three, four months. . . . The market turned into a mad house. May wheat went up the limU-from $2.67 to $2.77. Then Thursday morning it went up to $2.85. Then the market was top-heavy on the buying side; those who had bought took their profits...
Readers with even a 20-watt memory ought to recognize this old eye-popper. Some may recall it as a favorite parlor puzzle a decade or two ago. The late Alexander Woollcott published a breathless version in which the missing person is an elderly woman; in Mrs. Belloc Lowndes' The End of Her Honeymoon (1914) it is a young husband. All are variations on the same theme: a victim vanishes, leaving no sign of his existence; in feverish haste his hotel room is refurnished, repapered or walled off. The hotelkeeper (sometimes it is the police) has reason to dispose...