Word: eyeglass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the average German thinks of the average Englishman he does not think of Mr. Baldwin in the very least. Still less does he think of Strube's Little Man. . . . He visualizes a tall, spare man, immaculately dressed in top hat and frock coat, wearing spats and an eyeglass, and gripping a short but aggressive pipe in an enormous jaw. . . . To the German mind this immaculate figure is inspired by bitter jealousy of all foreign countries, by diabolical cunning, by ruthless materialism disguised under a revolting wrapper of unctuous self-righteousness. To him, the average Englishman is a clever...
...average American, the average Englishman seems affected, patronizing, humorless, impolite, and funny. To him also the Englishman wears spats and carries an eyeglass; to him also he is slim and neatly dressed; yet the American, unlike the German, is not impressed by these elegancies; he considers them ridiculous; and thus, although he is frequently assured by his own politicians that the Englishman is, in fact, a cold-blooded imperialist who spends his time in jumping on the underdog, he does not take these accusations very seriously. . . . To him we appear as slightly comic figures. I am aware that, psychologically speaking...
...better airports. An escort of nine Army planes accompanied him on the flight which rounded out his second straight year of a flight-a-day. In thick weather and thin he carried on, had many a close call, always came through. His health improved, his million-dollar-a-year eyeglass business prospered. Last week he ended his fifth year of daily flying with an aerial tour of Kansas and Missouri accompanied by 20 civilian and military planes...
...underwear. Almost two inches long were his freight and passenger car cuff links. A bicycle-shaped stud was reminiscent of the goldplated, diamond-studded bicycle he gave to Lillian Russell, who kept it in a plush case when she was not riding it. From the cover of his eyeglass case came the three-inch design of a locomotive. Other items: a camel tie clasp, a collar button representing an early airplane. In a forthcoming biography of "Diamond Jim" Brady, Jeweler Parker Morell estimates that at the time of Mr. Brady's death, War had brought his collection...
...Surgeon Bevan rushed Theodore Roosevelt after being shot by a Milwaukee maniac (1912). The bullet, Dr. Bevan recalled last week, went through 100 pages of manuscript and an eyeglass case before entering Roosevelt's body. When Roosevelt died some seven years later the bullet was still in his body, so far as Dr. Bevan knows...