Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resignation of C. C. Little from the presidency of Michigan University will undoubtedly cause widely divergent discussion throughout the country on the possible reason for his action. Any man who has so continually been before the public eye, and who has distinguished himself by activity in a number of different fields undoubtedly deserves such comment...
Gripped as usual by the muscles of M. Caillaux's right eye was his monocle. He was reading. Suddenly out of the fog-a truck! Brakes screamed. The chauffeur did his best to swerve. But the long low cradling limousine crashed headon, crumpled, overturned. The monocle, gripped spasmodically at the moment of impact, shattered, terribly cutting M. Caillaux about the eye...
...John Daniel Hertz was ready to make the taxicab an industry and to upset all previous methods. He had engineers design a small, tough cab. of low upkeep cost. He manufactured dozens, hundreds of them. He painted them an eye-arresting yellow-orange. He announced rates that knocked the public's eye out- 30? for the first mile, and no charge for the "dead haul'' (let a driver go five miles to get a 30? passenger if necessary). The Yellow cabs were shined up every day. Dentists and doctors took care of the drivers. Knowing well...
...Significance. Biographer Don Carlos Seitz has handled the eye-opening, breath-taking spectacle of the Bennetts with skill that is both accurate and vivid. On finishing the volume, one is sorry that there are today no editor-owners who pause on their yachts to demand a mockingbird or to send a Stanley to Africa...
Several famous Harvard personalities came under the eye of the camera during the past week. The University Film Foundation felt that its picture of Harvard life would be incomplete without movies of Dean Briggs, Professors Merriman and Kittredge, and other University notables...