Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Queen Emma and "Empress" Hermine communed in mutual audience for something over an hour. The call was of significance because it served to focus the world's eye momentarily once again upon Queen Emma, the resolute onetime Princess of Waldeck.Pyrmont who, at 21, by a single bold stroke, secured for herself elevation to the dignity of Queen of the Netherlands beside 62-year-old King William III, justly known as the "Dutch Don Juan...
...Gimlet Eye," the "Fighting Hell-Devil Marine," returned as Brigadier General last week to Tientsin, a city which he left just 27 years ago this month as a young Leatherneck Lieutenant, eager to do hand-to-hand battle with the slant-eyed "Boxers" who then held the Occidental quarter at Peking under murderous siege...
...Legation and all U. S. citizens be removed to the port of Tientsin from inland Peking, should that city be seriously menaced. To keep the way of escape open, to carry out the evacuation if necessary: these were the tasks faced last week by "Old Gimlet Eye Butler...
What percentage of mankind will jab a hatpin, ice pick or nail file through a knothole or key hole when they have reason to suspect that a human eye is pressed against the exterior of such an orifice...
Some critics say 10%; others go as high as 75%. But last week one Ray Doll, Chicago junk dealer, went so far as to fire a shotgun when he saw an eye peeking and peering at him through a knothole in his garage. The shotgun shell sped straight, blew out the brains of one Robert Hailey, 15, Negro, who meant no harm...