Word: eyeing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fortune finally smiled on him. He caught the eye of President Theodore Roosevelt by subduing the fierce Moros of Mindanao. The President praised him publicly, attended his wedding to Helen Frances Warren, daughter of Wyoming's Senator Francis E. Warren. In 1906 Roosevelt caused a sensation by promoting him from captain to brigadier general over the heads of 862 other officers...
...name he started with, either. Many years ago, he was plain Ch'ih Huang, a carpenter's apprentice from Hunan. After work one day he collected some shrimps, crabs, crickets, and tiny bugs, and put them all into a glass box. "I observed these creatures with my eye," says he, "and put them into my heart." One by one, he painted their "portraits"; and one by one, to his great surprise, he sold what he had painted...
...leisure he studies animals, and with a loving eye: not the large zoo animals or the poor, doomed "experimental" animals of laboratories, but mostly small casual creatures (mice, canaries, cockroaches) who lead their skittery lives around his desk. He clocks their habits, weighs their motives, charts their systems of morality. He has a fine eye for a dreamy, pregnant cockroach or an honored canary grown wise with...
Matthew Fox has a solid reputation as an expert kibitzer and operator, with an inordinately sharp eye for a fast buck. A movie man by trade, he has backed such side bets as Bub-0-Loon, three-dimensional pictures, the "everlasting match" (TIME, Oct. 13). Last winter he quit his $150,00b-a-year job as executive vice president of Universal-International Pictures to make side bets his life work. One of them turned out to be a new main chance: the Indonesian Republican government heeded $80,000 fast, and Matty Fox thought he could arrange it. He did. Then...
...corn is as high as an elephant's eye...