Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Witnesses. These cases have reached court at an opportune moment. All the main witnesses are conveniently at hand. In his cell at Michigan City, Ind., onetime Dragon Stephenson has been telling secrets with his eye on the prison gate. From his cell in Atlanta, Warren T. McCray returned home last fortnight, happy to be free, resolving to be good. He of all men can tell what passed between the Governors of Indiana...
...have been living in this country for quite a number of years and was an eye-witness in many occasions of your soldiers' deeds in San Domingo. In less than three years, more than 3,000 natives were assassinated because of simple suspicion of being "bandits." In Nicaragua the U. S. Government wish to get hold of certain rights in order to construct another transoceanic canal in the near future in detriment of the Nigaraguan freedom. A few mean politicians will transact with your Government and then the State Department sends soldiers to back the government headed by these...
...late arrival of the enigmatic, dishevelled, brilliant Aristide Briand, French Foreign Minister, caused some comment. It was feared that, as on a previous occasion when "eye trouble" was said to be an excuse, political snarls in Paris were detaining him; for it seemed inevitable that he would be sought by German statesmen and persuaded to make a promise relative to early evacuation of the Rhineland. At the same time it was realized that M. Briand has nothing to promise, the French Cabinet having already expressed its willingness to reduce the forces of occupation by no more than...
Thus it was argued that M. Briand might still be suffering from eye trouble-not trouble with his own eyes, but trouble from the stern eye of Premier Raymond Poincaré-an eye that glares discouragement on what it considers the too liberal, too pacifist policies of the squat Foreign Minister...
...then, bring art aboard ship? Here a man rests his eye upon an expanse of rolling blue, strolls the deck a few times for stimulation, seeks about for some object of interest and finds he just has to look at the pictures in the salon. Since there are not too many pictures, each must be studied. Studied they are appreciated, just as are the pictures hung in a gentleman's private gallery. The artist exhibiting under these conditions finds them ideal for a sale?he has a proper display, his prospect the proper attitude, and usually, aboard fine steamers...