Word: beheld
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Experiencing various emotions, the friends and enemies of Evolution last week beheld the formation, in Richmond, Va., of a Patriotic Welfare Committee which vowed to do battle this fall for a bill in the Virginia legislature similar to that lately passed in Tennessee and that lately defeated in Georgia-a bill to forbid the teaching, in state-supported schools, of any theory of the origin of man "in conflict with the Bible...
John Singer Sargent because, when he was a youth, he had beheld Velazquez' painting, and with discernment enough to realize that he beheld an immortal example of a great master's ability to triumph over his subject, he had copied the picture in the nicest oil-colors on his palet...
...Dalles, Ore., a thirsty tourist beheld a roadside spring over which the Highway Department had nailed a sign: THIS WATER IS CONTAMINATED. He hurried to the spring, began noisily to drink. A highway official, driving by, stopped to warn the drinking fellow. "Hi, Chief," said the guzzler, "what kind of mineral water is this here contaminated water? I never heard of it before, and this is the first time I seen it advertised." The official crawled away. Next day the old sign was replaced with another: THIS WATER IS ROTTEN. NOT FIT TO DRINK...
...Bisbee's Princess, the genuine article, brightly illumined the existence of that portly and proper small-town jeweler when he made her acquaintance on a train. Gossips beheld the illumination as the lurid glare of scandal. Bisbee's wife wailed and railed. Bisbee's business boomed. Long after, when the princess wrote for a pair of patent spectacles, Bisbee postured, privately but gallantly, with a paper cutter...
...Ella beheld Monsieur Ripois on Dollis Hill, stretching his arms to the spring sunshine in thanksgiving for his wellbeing, in vague supplication for something pure and fresh, possibly a new woman. Later, when he approached her, an erect, full-bosomed child-virgin, she did not see a little cad of 30-odd with a pale, muggy face, but remembered a man whose gesture had expressed the wonder she awaited in life. She made a dream of him, managed their whole affair in calm unquestioning ecstasy-quite the best affair he had ever had, thought Monsieur Ripois, until she told...