Word: beheld
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago that Mr. Adams and his son paid a call on General Santa Anna of Mexico at Snug Harbor, Staten Island. From a bureau drawer the General produced "a little chunk of something resembling overshoeing." The guests beheld him place a piece of this substance in his mouth, chomp his jaws, smile. They dubiously examined the "overshoeing," which the General called "chicle" and said was the gum of the zapote tree. They too chomped, smiled...
...Beheld, for the first time in 22 years, the apparition of two Sheriffs of the city of London, clad in scarlet robes, accompanied by the bewigged City Remembrancer, appealing at the bar of the House of Commons...
When Paulus Emilus, Emperor of Rome, beheld the statue of Zeus Olympus which a Greek, Phidias of Athens, had erected at Olympia in ivory and gold, he trembled in all his limbs, and ordered sacrifices to be offered before the image. Twenty years later the Emperor was dead, and in a few years more the statue itself was a fable. Few men alive in the sixth century had ever seen it, fewer still could tell what had become of it. Copies exist, worn faces on coins, busts that show the softening touch of weaker epochs. Last week a new copy...
...were acutely conscious that the battleship Resolution was steaming toward Port Said from the British naval base at Malta. All knew that British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain had just cabled in especially imperious vein* to the impotent Egyptian government. When Zaghlul Pasha rose, all emotion, the Wafd beheld how Pyrrhic was its victory...
...feature film at the Metropolitan this week is adapted from this very good book and made into a very much worse movie. In fact the above mentioned author must have experienced much the same loss of faith as the chicken which hatched a duck egg, when he first beheld his motion picture child. In short the picture is just another of those periodic and unpleasantly intimate glimpses of crime, courtrooms and cops. A totally likable, but thoroughgoing scoundrel in the book is made into an unconscious crook in the screen version. The crowning movie touch, however, was a lurking dictaphone...