Word: eyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inasmuch as I have never yet seen a published photograph of a prizefighter (successful or otherwise) with a black eye, I can't help wondering how the neat shiner donated to Editor Anderson of the Drake University Times-Delphic by Ellis Bergmann and featured in TIME of March 23 compares with the work of a professional "closer of eyes," say the shiner Tunney hung on Dempsey in Philadelphia...
...they watch the Columbia-Harvard crew race this afternoon, Harvard's rowing enthusiasts will also have an eye on Annapolis and a race between the Crimson's two most formidable sprint opponents...
Through these strong-arm tactics, one student came very near to losing an eye through the firing of a tear gas bomb, as the little wax pellet flew out and hit him in the cyclid. This would never have happened, if the mob had been slowly but surely dealt with by proctors and Yard Cops who could have confiscated bursars cards, and broken the affair up in the same manner in which it had been started; namely in the spirit of good fun and lack of venomous malice. The Cambridge police bungled the thing, and they must stand responsible...
...Turk is not unkind according to his lights. He thinks it cruel to drown litters of kittens, he therefore puts them on the dustheap! In every side street you meet the cats, old and emaciated cats, cats with one eye blind, kittens toddling with unsteady step, cats with skin diseases, cats eternally scratching themselves, dying cats run over by cars on the roadside. When I asked residents in Istanbul what could be done about the cats, they shrugged their shoulders. 'Istanbul was menaced in its old wooden houses by a plague of rats; cats were necessary...
...Franco rebellion last summer, Ortega added his signature to a proclamation of loyalty to the Government. Later, a sick man, he left his war-torn country for neutral France. The essays in his book were all written before the Spanish civil war began, but this historian's-eye-view reveals an even grimmer prospect than appears in current headlines and newsreels...