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Word: eyeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moved in. It was cool and comfortable, had running water in every room. In this rustic solitude she spent her declining years. On summer evenings she might have been observed sitting by an open window, her bright green head thrust out in an attitude of expectancy, a sharp eye peeled for passing worms and unsuspecting bugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...going to study New York's budget, he said, and agricultural relief would be a first consideration of his régime. He spoke then, probably, as a conscientious executive with an eye only to duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Democracy | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...adage "supreme in one, indifferent in all," very nearly applies. Mr. Coward is a clever satirist and was quite evidently born with a silver tune in his mouth, but he is still caught in The Vortex and overdoes his stuff as a consequence. His frenzied, nail-gnawing and agonized eye-rolling largely detract from the effectiveness of "Dance, Little Lady," while his indifferent voice and dancing similarly blur a number of other scenes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Brilliantly, passionately, yet with a keen eye for historical detail, Mr. Thaddeus presents the many-sided Voltaire, the man who walked with kings; who languished in the Bastille; who was an idol of the salons; who was a liar and forger, yet who risked his shrivelled body and his immortal soul for human liberty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Selected List of Important Fall Books | 11/13/1928 | See Source »

...Doric columns of the New York Times, in the tabloid New York Daily News and in many another U. S. daily, during the last fortnight of the campaign, was spread an eye-arresting advertisement. Half of it was an olla-podrida of press clippings, some of them from The Fellowship Forum. Specimens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: After All is Said | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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