Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keen eye trained to observe the antics of one's fellow men and a fine sense of humor are the prime requisites for a cartoonist," declared Clare Briggs, America's leading cartoonist in an interview with the CRIMSON. Briggs whose drawings are published in over 175 American newspapers, is the author of a number of series of cartoons, among the best known being "Ain't it a Grand and Glorious Feelin'?", "When a Feller Needs a Friend." "Someone is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life", "Mr. and Mrs.", and "Real Folks at Home...
...Colmar, in Alsace-Lorraine, a beady-eyed French lawyer stuck out his right forefinger, wagging it before the broad, shiny nose of an Alsatian priest, the Abbe Haegy. "Ha!" snorted the lawyer, "look me in the eye! Look into the eyes of a Frenchman, M. l'Abbé, and tell me if you will not shout with me 'VIVE LA FRANCE...
...very modernest of the modernists. It has the bevy of nude ladies which Artist Renoir painted in his pensive way and called "Les Baigneuses," and which the Louvre failed to accept as a gift from Artist Renoir's sons. It contains tortured Goyas, and stark El Grecos; bold, eye-shaking Manets, Monets, Picassos, Soutines, Matisses, Van Goghs. It has many a tired ballet dancer by Degas, many an illuminating piece of fruit by Dr. Barnes's favorite of all painters, Paul Cezanne. Also, because of their influence upon French art and the presence of three of their race...
...address. Five insets adorned the board, four containing tin-types of handsome human females coifed and prinked as was the fashion 35 years ago. The fifth inset, placed in the midst of the collection, showed a young man of Apollonian mien?crisp, curly hair, square forehead, forceful jaw, roguish eye. That was the way one J. Roy Tucker, now a slightly bald, portly oil man of 55, looked in his college days. Mr. Tucker was not reticent with the newsgatherer...
...plays the part of the first lord in "Iolanthe" makes the most of the role of the pirates' apprentice. William Williams, The Lord High Chancellor, is not quite so satisfactory in the part of that General who has fathered so many eligible daughters to catch the pirate eye. His voice is always recitative, and as a consequence not half so sufficient in the second play...