Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...increasing prospect of any man's nomination distorts his image in the public eye. In the case of Candidate Smith, his enemies see him more and more as a subtle knave of Rum and Romanism wearing the stripes of Tammany. His friends, in turn, are prone to exalt him as a Galahad of the masses, dight in spotless, and stripeless, armor. Actually, of course, he is simply a 54-year-old up-from-the-bottom man whose profession has been politics, whose acquired technique is state-government, whose ambition is what he calls "the highest office in the world...
Harvard might be tempted merely to sigh contemplatively, and cock one eye on the tablets in the locker house that once announced records as good as the best. Young blood, young vigor, seriousness in sports . . . all very well, for those who still play with the zest of youth; here at Harvard, a tired savoir faire is said to have taken their place. Harvard might, indeed, merely sigh, or even yawn, if this were true, but, sadly enough for the erudite gentlemen who delight in classifying the University and all its contents with one clever phrase, not all the instinct...
...worst of it is that this error will not be immediately rectified by consulting the inside matter. The advertisements are after Saks-Fifth-Avenue and Brooks in their Ritziest moments, and if there is a little gents-room language somewhere on the page it will escape the eye of all but the most inquiring. Blackburn's Raymond ad and the Oh-so-French perfumery exhibit (pardon fumes of exquisite women) of Mr. Breck are after this manner...
...addition to the investigations of rabbits, in the form of two major problems, the subject of the fertility and sterility of certain species of rats, heredity and susceptibility to cancer in mice, and studies of the genetics of guineapig eye-color, many problems and diagnoses of sundry genre of plants have ensued...
...American public. Is Federal control of that organization in prospect? Will the conduct of chain stores generally be such within the next few years as to bring about such a degree of 'cooperation' and 'understanding' among the largest ones as to attract the eye and attention of the Department of Justice...