Word: behold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invited in, and was surprised at the assembly of youth and beauty, "took an affectionate farewell, and many a longing, lingering look was sent back upon many a swimming eye." On a third occasion Judge Fay was serenaded. "We discoursed most eloquent music, much said, Let us go. And behold we went to the city of the Philistines, and did serenade their daughters, and came home about the third hour. And the fame of the Pierians did wax exceedingly great, and did reach the places round about Cambridge...
...again-five times in the first round, Walker tearing in with Dempsey-like speed and solidity whenever unlucky Barrett achieved a perpendicular posture. Gritty Barrett retained consciousness until the sixth round. Then, after grovelling for the count of nine, he dragged himself erect a final time, only to behold Walker racing toward him, muscles bunched, face set in the "killer" look. Crash-indubitably, the welterweight champion of the world was still Mickey Walker...
...every one is so far-sighted as this Senator's son. Nor if they were would they be by any means sure of having settled, once for all, what manner of face the public shall behold upon them. Not only do cameras, light and other physical circumstances vary. Journalistic ethics is a complex study, and editors, jealous of their "rights," guard their freedom to publish whatever picture of an individual best answers their paper's immediate purpose...
...when he lopped the tendrils the trees themselves moved upon him in a foremost phalanx, forcing him to blaze his trail to the lawns of the palace of Elfland. There he slew the palace guard-four splendid knight whose thick and curious elfin blood was awesome to behold. And Lirazel, the Elf King's daughter, stood among the bluebells and gazed am wondered and loved and went away with Alvaric to the Vale of Erl in the fields men knew...
...Behold This Woman. Another picture of Hollywood, by Hollywood, for Hollywood. All points of interest in the story are seen as in real life, except, of course, the characters. It is good to know that they are only acting, for Irene Rich, as a sophisticated screen queen, breaks down in her car among the hills, drops in on Charles Post (as Stephen Strange-way, hillman), lets herself in for his strong-man love. He does not recover until there has been displayed a good deal of vamping, counter-vamping, and ancient details of the Hollywood "sugar-papa" system. The scenario...