Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour work days last week, the mayor of Los Angeles trudged up the 135 steps to his house on a hill high above the Hollywood Bowl. Below him was one of the great man-made sights in America: the lights of Los Angeles, stretching as far as the eye could reach. Fletcher Bowron's eyes gave the familiar scene an instant's glance. Inside his old Spanish-style house, his eyes moistened as he opened a red leather book and read a sheaf of letters in his praise. He had had an unusual day. It was his tenth...
...Governor of New York). In the White House, she managed her family and her husband with serene competence and quiet humor. She improved the White House gardens and its housekeeping. Visitors caught glimpses of her reading to her children, or sewing at an upstairs window. She kept a watchful eye on Teddy, often interceded at state functions with a quiet "Theodore! Theodore!" (The President always meekly protested: "Why, Edie, I was only...
After her husband's death in 1919, she traveled widely. Visiting dignitaries called on her, but she avoided the public eye. She devoted herself to her family and friends, entertained the local Women's Republican Club, was always ready to help charity drives and benefits for servicemen. Every year on her birthday, the family gathered at her Long Island home, at Oyster...
George Bernard Shaw, 92, entertained British Actress Frances Rowe. "I feel like a bouncing baby boy," cackled the playwright, and illustrated what he meant when a photographer tried to pose them together. His coaching to the actress: "Give me the glad eye, Fanny...
...right end for the score. He plowed through the middle for 14 yards and another touchdown. He relied on cutbacks and shiftiness rather than sheer speed. Said one blocker: "It's easy to block for Charlie, because he sets up the blocks." Choo Choo had an uncanny photographic eye that enabled him to get a quick picture of a broken field defense. He accounted for Carolina's third and game-winning touchdown by taking a punt on his own 16-yd. line and squirming 84 yards down the sidelines. Final score: North Carolina 21, Georgia...