Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some anti-Hoover move by Non-Candidate Dawes so upsetting as to precipitate a Coolidge stampede. If Ohio had not "clinched" the thing, said the Hooverites, then Indiana would clinch it, next week. There the local champion to be defeated is Candidate Watson, large of stomach, small of eye, a smooth political mechanic. Watsonism in Indiana was considered even harder to beat than was the Willis phenomenon in Ohio. But two things, besides the Hooverizing of Ohio, happened last week to weaken Watsonism...
Eventually this discreet and exceptional communication came under the piercing but kindly eye of great M. Painlevé. He studied the photograph, saw a face of rugged grandeur. He read the attestations of Mme. Jacquet's poaching ways with an egg, learned that her pot au feu was delectable and sound. Finally the War Minister decided that in this instance the uncertain quantity or "X" stood for a good & honest cook. Therefore Mme. Jacquet Was appointed, last week, to the regiment at Tourelles until such time as it may be ordered upon active service. Pleased but with a sense...
...Glass Eye...
...through the winter months T. H. Brown's glass eye had functioned as well as could be expected. Last fortnight as he stepped from a well-heated house in Ranger, Tex., cold air struck his false eye, caused it to burst into a shower of pieces, pour tiny particles of glass over his face and into his one normal eye...
...fields of sport not so close under the public eye the decks are cleared for action. To athletes of the Massachusetts schools who are running on the Stadium track Harvard extends a welcome. A spring runner within the University has their chance for a brief dash down the course of glory. The Freshman baseball team, the tennis, golf, and lacrosse teams are throwing aside their training clothes for the battle. For weeks the drama has been in rehearsal: the audience is ready, and the curtain rises today...