Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expand much outside of his own state of Nebraska; perhaps, too, they poked into history books to find that he is probably the only U. S. hero-warrior who has not been President or at least a serious candidate for the office.± If Warrior Pershing really has his eye on 1928 (which is doubtful even to his admirers), his speech last week was an effective opening...
...front door yard of the President's or Professor's House or within Ten rods of the Person of the President Eight Rods of the Professor and five Rods of a Tutor." Freshmen must have spent a considerable part of each day glancing about that with a calculating eye on hand their hatbrims...
...made this country go off at a tangent, but once there, everybody rather enjoyed it and is still enjoying it. It is far too soon to suppose that Americans will come back to the little cube of ice, when there are so many more delightful things to attract the eye...
...Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary: "My penchant for a haughty monocle having been internationally remarked, I was welcomed to. Glasgow University last week by 5,000 students all be-monocled. Undismayed, I only 'screwed' my monocle the tighter into its eye socket, and was installed, amid acclaim as Lord Rector of Glasgow University. I am said to be one of the few Englishmen who can perform the 'impossible' feat of tossing my monocle into the air with thumb and finger and catching it again with my right eye socket...
...said with no drop of his calm eyes: "What must be asked of the surgeon is not that he should be young, but that he must not be old. When old age appears at the turning of the road, when the sacred fire begins to flicker, and the hand to tremble, and the eye to blur, it is then time that the surgeon should think of rest. Let him then do as 'the tired wayfarer, after a long journey, resting by the wayside, look on and watch the passers-by who have followed him in the rugged, but wondrous...