Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they say, 'aha, a labor leader lives in a penthouse,' as though a labor leader shouldn't be comfortable.") He pays $190 a month rent, lives there with his wife, their divorced daughter and her child Ryna, who is the apple of her grandfather's eye. The rooms are crowded with pictures, antiques, and knickknacks. Waving his hand, Dubinsky explains: "See all these gifts, gifts, so many I didn't know what to do with them. How many wrist watches can you wear?" Now when a local wants to show its gratitude, Dubinsky...
Such windows were invented at the museum 45 years ago (at the time, the trustees thought they lacked dignity), and have been improved on ever since. Today, their fool-the-eye art is unsurpassed anywhere...
...team of specialists on the job could be reasonably sure that when it was done not a brush stroke, a clumsily veined leaf, a speck of dust or a beaver hair out of place would mar the illusion of paralyzed reality. Fooling the eye, they agreed, is just a matter of patience and technique...
...Eyes & Purses. Malvern was the first of 15 Arkansas cities and towns to get a look at the caravan. The state-sponsored trek, proceeding with all the hoopla of an oldtime circus, was meant as both an eye opener and a purse opener. For years, Arkansas has missed being at the bottom of the U.S. list in educational expenditures only because Alabama and Mississippi have usually spent less...
Alfred E. Lyon, board chairman of Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., returned from a European trip last week with some eye-popping estimates of the market for American tobacco-providing a way could be found around the dollar shortage, possibly by barter deals (e.g., U.S. tobacco for French cigarette paper). Item: "Workingmen in England spend a quarter of their average weekly earnings of ?5 on cigarettes...