Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...watchful eye was caught last week by a name on a sign in a realty subdivision on the outskirts of Washington, D. C. The sign said to consult your own broker...
Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, is the third son of Queen Victoria. A shy, sensitive man, he has been less in the public eye than any other Prince of the British Blood Royal. His career has been for the most part spent in the Army. At the age of 20 he served in Canada in suppressing the Fenian raid and later saw active service in Egypt. Rising by easy royal stages, he finally achieved the not unmerited rank of a Field Marshall...
Touts & breeders, millionaires & jockeys froze with fear last week when Santrock, racehorse, crashed into the rail in a race at Jamaica, L. I. Santrock, blind in one eye, is dangerous. Bumping the rail he could not see, the horse pulled a blinker over the other eye. In total darkness he smashed terrified through the rail, turned somersaults, crashed through both rails on the backstretch. His jockey was thrown, badly bruised. Experts felt it lucky Santrock did not kill both himself and jockey...
...films scheduled for the coming months at the local guild hall is remarkable; it includes such diversions as "Stark Love", supposedly as near unpremeditated art as a camera man can approach, Janning's "The Last Laugh", and other foreign and native pictures which are made with at least one eye on an intelligent public and off the box office...
...fact that in this particular case, a managership is giving way before scholarship is not of great moment. Other extra curricula activities, different from the football managership only in that they are less in the public eye, have, no doubt, suffered the same fate in recent years. The teams, too, have not been immune from the added attraction which the tutorial system, better reading facilities, more capable instructors, or whatnot seem to be lending to what was formerly considered the exclusive preserve of the uncongenial grind...