Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read and Publicity believe only his papers. Mr. Ford held the prosperity of many industries in his hand when he decided on his new car; and Mr. Hearst is able to disturb the balance of nations. No doubt it will be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for these men to enter into Heaven. But in life, with kings powerless and presidents so restricted, it might be desirable that the monarchy of the rich be not absolute...
...princess mightier than she who once wrought at Bayeux eternally weaving into her web dim figures of the ever lengthening pas;--figures too dim to be noticed by the idle, too symbolic to be interpreted except by her pupils, but to the discerning eye disclosing every painful step and every world-shaking contest by while mankind has worked and fought its way from savage isolation to organic social life...
...transformed into either Mexican frijoles or Armenian dolmas. The Story: Mrs. Ruth A. Jeremiah Gottfried has assembled in staccato sentences 128 recipes: "The booty that one casual observer in foreign kitchens found practical to bring home and too tempting to leave behind." Each recipe has a catch-eye head- ing?some with snap. Examples: "Pilaf: An Extinct Soup"; "Carme-leis: Swoons in Cream"; "Silde-boller: Hamburger with Fins." Eyes which have been caught but perhaps frightened by pilaf, carme-leis and sildeboller are then directed to a consoling, italicized reassurance: The actual instructions for preparing each dish "... are so constructed...
...Manhattan opening night; no scrimmage. Pacific natives in the audience viewed it as a shrewd and often violently flavored vision of other peoples' poor; heard some bad writing, some rare poetry, much cutting humor. Much of the acting was of high excellence. Despite flaws quickly visible to the eye of local playgoers, used to smooth productions of the best of our producers, the Irish players are eventful visitors...
...manner to make her husband acutely covetous of the option; that Mr. Sutherland has been abducted in the hope he will listen to his host's chequebook; that Miss Perkins is an innocent victim of circumstances. A garbled press dispatch is printed in London and meets the eye of Lady Furber. Lady Furber, being a woman of some decision, reaches Monte Carlo almost immediately, boards the yacht, and rings down the curtain a very few pages later...