Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During 50 years of farming at Hiawatha, Kans., John M. Davis accumulated a half million dollars and a long white beard. He also developed a turned-down nose, a turned-down mouth and a suspicious and belligerent eye. John M. Davis had a problem and he wrestled with it morning, noon & night. The effort gave him a mean look...
...late Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom he met in wartime, President Tubman wants to give Liberia's lagging political institutions a new deal, has already sponsored such progressive measures as votes for women and an income tax. Ranging far from his capital, Monrovia, Tub man keeps an eye on district commissioners and frontier forces, sometimes sacks them for "malfeasance, misfeasance and unfeasance...
...Autobiography of William Allen White (TIME, March 18, 1946), whose author died in 1944, at 75. One significant sign of the times: the prize for distinguished work as a reporter went to the New York World-Telegram's single-minded Frederick Woltman, who keeps a close and watchful eye on left-wing activities; he won the citation for his periodic pieces on "the infiltration of Communism in the United States...
Saturdays, with the help of Robert Paul, an old Penn crony who sometimes acts as his Seeing Eye at sports events, Bob mulls over the week's sport pages. Then he talks to local athletes over the telephone. Paul copies out the studio script on a typewriter while Allman punches out his own script on a Braille slate, a gadget that resembles a cribbage board...
...Leavitt to me," chortled the Sage with a Glinut in his eye, "this CRIMSON-'Poon game is Jester romp. Wood you believe it?" he remarked to his crony, "the Crime has Rheault over the lbisters by the same score ever since the paper first made Profits...