Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read your new Fashion Department with, I will confess a critical but, I am sure, unmercenary eye. I wish now to express my approval qualified by one or two suggestions. In the first place, I am afraid that you do not always seize upon the most significant developments. But this defect will probably be corrected as you acquire familiarity with your subject. Then I have a more important suggestion: why do you not call your department PROGRESS, rather than FASHION? The latter is an unpleasant word carrying a hint of inconsequence, whim, frivolousness and lack of permanence. Should...
Died. Theodore ("Tiger") Flowers, Negro, 32, onetime (Feb.-Dec., 1926) middleweight boxing champion of the world; in Manhattan; unexpectedly, after an operation for the removal of a growth over his left eye. Rightly known as "the Georgia Deacon," he uttered as his last words: "If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take...
...SPIDER-What happens when a magician has murder in his eye...
...week aglow with a stunning performance by Helen Hayes. The play was variously compounded out of Smith College and the intensely theatrical background of the melodrama, Broadway. In the cast of Broadway there once appeared one Ann Preston Bridgers, Smith girl, potential playwright. Her manuscript came under the canny eye of George Abbott, one of the authors of Broadway, and when he was through with it Jed Harris, producer of the same success, went out and hired a troupe. To head it he hired Helen Hayes, and by her playing she joined immediately the tiny group of actresses who make...
...blanketed professorial knees quivered in jubilation over the crack. Then a bony forefinger protruded into space and long white curtains floated in the Stadium atmosphere. "Will the gentleman entering the lower Portal of Section 39 kindly remove his hat?" Thousands sat in awe and whispers of "Well played, ... good eye ... bravo" were heard here and there...