Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gauged the temper of mild, white-haired Federal Judge Albert L. Reeves with the eye of a mule trader sizing up a parson; after that he did everything but shoot off firecrackers under the judge's nose. He objected incessantly. He told bad jokes. He brayed, waved his arms, and quoted the Bible with enthusiastic piety. On one of those rare occasions when the judge reproved him, he replied obsequiously, "Beggars mustn't be choosers and I'm happy to get what you're gonna give me ... I subside." Then he would continue as before...
Lewis Douglas, 54, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was coming along fine: doctors now thought that they could save his left eye, which was snagged by a wind-blown fishhook a month ago on the Test River. Leading off a long report to the State Department, Douglas cracked: "As I see the problem from my bed, and through one eye...
...Chic Young has a wife (a redhead), two children and a dog. But the Youngs are not models for the Bumsteads, because Young has found that "one family doesn't turn out enough humor to keep a strip going year in & year out." Instead, he keeps a sharp eye peeled for ideas, stores them up for future...
...cash it raised on these sales Alleghany has already bought into Portsmouth Steel and Interlake Steamship Co., a Great Lakes ore carrier, and increased its holdings of Pittston Co., one of the world's largest coal producers. Wall Streeters also gossiped that Young was casting a buying eye on Western Union and American Express Co., which he thought he could get cheap. Both would fit nicely into his transportation kingdom. For landing big fish like these, Bob Young was readying...
...must have died instantly," Dodge said this afternoon in describing the rescue. "There was a deep cut over his left eye and the scalp was torn...