Word: eying
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...HERALD, always on the alert to furnish its readers with the latest news, is pleased to announce the discovery by a reporter of a copy of the Roman Daily Squint-Eye. We should like to speak of the Squint-Eye as an esteemed contemporary, but, with due respect for the editors, must decline to do so, for the paper was printed about A. D. 125. We present below some extracts...
...acknowledge the receipt from the Emperor of an order not to publish the names of his guests at dinner who happen to die rather suddenly. We would like the Emperor to understand that we run the paper, and don't care a nightingale's eye-lash what he says. Our funeral will take place day-after-tomorrow, and all those who have paid up their subscription to date are invited. We are at present receiving bids from the widow...
...Papacy in the Middle Ages." The former was especially interesting. Prof. Adams related in a vivid way several amusing incidents in the career of different speakers of the House, and described the whole day's doings so happily that the listeners could almost believe they had been there, eye-witnesses to it all. The lecture on Papacy was equally good, and very fully attended. These long winter evenings' entertainments are doubly enjoyed...
...eye of the uninitiated the subject of a recent university thesis comes with ambiguous effect. It was on "The Development of Lucifer...
...Boston Post, which usually keeps its weather eye open for all sorts of students' scrapes, and comments upon them somewhat severely, propounds the following conundrum: "What is the matter with the college boys? They act as though they were inspired. Princeton students have been on trial for misdemeanors; Cornell sophomores have been arrested for abducting freshmen, and Williams College students have made the services of the police necessary by very rowdyish demonstrations at North Adams. We hope the evil of "crankism" will not extend to our higher institutions of learning. It is better to be aesthetic...