Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel Starling went to eye the many locations offered to President Coolidge for his summer vacation. Ornithologists, recalling the starling's reputation for appropriating the nests of other birds, punned feebly on the name of the President's emissary whose problem is not to find a home but to choose among the many offered by generous donors with available premises and a yen for publicity...
...announced that Willard Howard '28 might pitch for Harvard some time during the game. Two years ago Howard was a regular at shortshtop on the University nine, but was struck in the eye by a batted ball in the Princeton game, and has seen little service since. The coaches have been training him as a hurler this season, and Coach Mitchell said last night that he might fill a relief pitching role if the visitors hit the starting twirler hard. Howard pitched on his school team at Middlesex...
...Notre Dame he was surrounded by variations of the seven devils, grotesquely carved in the recesses of the cathedral. Today modern Quasimade who have the ambition to crewl around the less obvious parts of the Princeton Graduate College have similar company, brought down to modernity and constructed with an eye for present collegiate tendencies. There is a gargoyle representing an amorous duet in a roadster, there is another which shows a radio fan in the midst of his revelry. And so tomorrow, or whenever roadsters and radios are superseded by other curiosities, the archeologists will find new fields for delving...
...itself. Putting aside thoughts of brighter costumed baseball heroes, of a blue clad runner valiantly battling up the back stretch against baffling breeze, and of far off dreams engendered by the atmosphere of the Pops, the Vagabond will again wander forth into the Yard this morning his eye on Harvard Hall, his mind full of history. For without stirring out of this ancient center of Harvard life nor shifting his mind from its historical focus the Vagabond feels that he can satisfy his academic appetite--at least...
Special Delivery. Eddie Cantor's art is a matter of sustaining punches in the eye, somersaults down elevator shafts, kicks, with perfectly immobile countenance. All this he does and little more in the course of a series of gags illustrating what can happen to a sublimely stupid letter carrier whose flashes of shrewdness are funny when unexpected...