Word: eyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficulties of photographing musical comedies is that the camera's eye, when near enough to a chorus to show whether the girls are good looking or not, is only wide enough to take in five girls abreast. Another is that there is no adequate way of grading sounds so that the singing of the ensemble at the back of he stage will be less sonorous than that of the principals at the footlights. Another is that musical comedies depend for much of their effect on color, and color-production in cinemas has not yet been perfected even as well...
...books and Hogarth's prints, he has tried to set down some of the more intimate aspects of the life of the day, and has succeeded to a certain extent. If the reader himself has a vivid imagination, he may put Mr. Sherwin's pictures in his mind's eye and build up out of them a fine scene of rum and riot, women and song...
...graduate stopped; he raised his eye...
When I'm weary in the eye...
...chief virtue of an examination proctor is that he sees without being seen, hears without being heard, and announces the passing nour without causing panic. If he thrusts himself too much in the public eye, he distracts the attention of those occupied with more serious affairs; if he retires too completely behind a pillar he tails to gather the information necessary for his theoretical report on "Some irregular methods of tilling blue books." It has been will said that the successful proctor approaches more nearly to the Golden Mean than any other College official...