Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment, there was nothing he could do but listen. Four days before, on the express orders of Secretary George Marshall, Bob Lovett had been banished from Washington for a much-needed rest. Under the eye of his wife Adele, he was going through the motions of a holiday...
Secret Pride. Lammers lacked the perverted brilliance of a Goebbels, the bravado of a Goring, the bold genius of a Speer. He was an unquestioning, ordinary bureaucrat, with the ordinary bureaucrat's training. After serving as an infantry captain in World War I (in which he lost an eye), he became a minor official in the German Ministry of the Interior. Disgusted by the weakness of the Weimar Republic, he joined the Nazis and betrayed government information to them. A specialist in constitutional law, Lammers was responsible for the legislative maze with which the Nazis surrounded their most lawless...
...Tiger's Eye, going into its third issue with a press run of 5,000, was the expensively printed quarterly of Artist John Stephan and his wife, Poet Ruth Walgreen Stephan. Because she thinks it a shame that poets get such paltry pay, Mrs. Stephan, daughter of the late Drug Magnate Charles R. Walgreen, pays a princely $2 a line for poetry...
...down the East Coast, televiewers, many of them seeing their first symphony concert, were stirred by the dynamic old man. And Toscanini, unnaturally docile about it all, was in top form. No less adroit was the photography of Director Hal Keith's three cameras. The television eye followed the music smoothly as it proceeded from section to section of the orchestra. It caught some remarkably candid glimpses of the maestro that concertgoers never see: Toscanini's glittering eyes, flashing eloquent messages to his musicians; his triumphant roar in the midst of a Wagnerian crescendo; the beads of sweat...
...Sheets is one of the most versatile and successful of U.S. artists; he seems more like a bland, blond bond salesman. Sheets is one painter who can look his patrons in the eye and remark, without a deprecatory smile, "I'm no genius...