Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though he had not been over the ground himself, Senator Johnson had collected an anthology of eye-witness accounts which he read into the record. That most of these accounts came from sources which would ordinarily be called "sensational" or "sentimental" made them all the more reliable. To extreme situations, only extremists can do justice. Excerpts from Senator Johnson's anthology...
...trumpeted from Florida and the nation's press picked up the echoes greedily. Said the famed promoter: "Jack Dempsey is through with the ring." Said Fisticuffer Dempsey in California: "If Tex says so I guess it's true." Failing sight owing to socks in and about the eye were among the reasons offered. Skeptics of the press, long used to sound and fury meaning nothing but publicity, pointed out wearily that Dempsey would not be through with the ring until the public unmistakably gave evidence of unwillingness to pay to see him fight...
...actor; he used later to direct Mary Pickford or Mack Sennett, making a picture a day. According to tradition, it was D. W. Griffith who suggested that cinemas be lengthened to two reels, who invented the closeup, who enlarged the scope of the camera beyond that of the human eye. His The Birth of a Nation was perhaps the first picture which approached the potentialities of the cinema. Others, a list which betray D. W. Griffith's highly disputable flair for titles, are: Hearts of the World; Broken Blossoms; Orphans of the Storm; America. Beau Sabreur. Two novels, both...
...other preoccupation is mechanics. In his late 'teens he acquired a Franklin air cooled automobile which soon became his passion. Cheerfully greasy he dismembered it and screwed it together again. Of late years aviation caught his mechanical mind's eye and he learned flying, planning to commute by air between Newport and Manhattan. The war machinery of ships engrossed him in 1917-18 when he progressed from U. S. ensign to lieutenant and served actively in foreign waters. He loaned to the government for the war his Winchester, fastest large yacht (about 35 miles per hour) yet designed to carry...
...close resemblance to the more graceful if less temperate indiscretions of the immortal Ninon. The history of her long and erratic career (1615-1705) is well recounted by Author Austin, without evidence of vast research, in his shallow, swift running style. He regards her misdemeanors with a sympa- thetic eye, is careful to point out that her liaisons often cooled to life-long friendships. Well he describes her receiving, in the convent to which she had been temporarily remanded by the Queen of France, a visit from the extraordinary Queen Christina of Sweden. The crowd of shadowy gallants that...