Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...black eye" referred to by Grand Sachem Voorhis was, of course, William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed, the coarse, corpulent crook who grafted incredibly on New York City while he was Grand Sachem. He died in jail 50 years ago. Beside the doings of Tweed, the political peccadilloes of other 'Tammany 'members are dwarfed. Tweed and his "ring," controlling the city's Board of Supervisors, cleared tens of millions in letting contracts, selling permits and offices, contributing for the city to "charities." A plasterer named Garvey once got $133,187.20 for two days' work from the City...
Grand Sachem Voorhis guessed that delegates to the Democratic convention of 1924 in Manhattan had learned "that the Tammany Tiger was not nearly the vicious animal some of them had supposed. The animal, as a matter of fact, has had one black eye during all its life and only...
...Other Woman was Amelia Earhart, who once sold sausage-meat while Mabel was selling cigars, and who looks amazingly like Lindbergh. Stultz had decided to risk a trans-atlantic flight with Lady Lindy rather than with the Diamond Queen, perhaps because: Lady Lindy is tall, blue-gray of eye, curly of hair, while her rival is shorter, dark-eyed, vividly blonde. More probably because...
Taking as his text the twenty second and twenty third verses of the sixth chapter of Matthew. "The light of the body is the eye if therefore thine eye be single, the whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be 'evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!", President Lowell delivered the Baccalaureate Sermon to the Seniors and visitors who througed Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon...
...result they had not foreseen. Of course no moral was involved in this case, but it may illustrate what I mean. The compass is to the mariner what conscience is to a man. A deviation involves a wrong course. That is the significance in our text of the eye being single and whole body full of light...