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...forehead and round my eyes, my nose is as crooked as it always was, and is pitted with smallpox to boot; as are also my cheeks, which are pendulous with large jaws and jagged teeth. My mouth is changed, too, having become larger and wrinkled at the corners. Behold what a beautiful object I am..." To be sure this was written when she was 46 years of age, but no one has even said that she was anything but ugly, even in her youth...
...latest advantage has been won by the Astors, who have just succeeded in changing the status of the west side of Madison Ave. between 35th and 38th Streets from "residential" to "business." Thus Mr. Morgan may some day behold from his windows a series of lofty office buildings rising across the street. But this will probably not happen until considerable litigation has taken place...
...Harry Thaw is still a man of wealth-only that. To be free to come and go, to admire and to behold the many commonplace beauties of life, to watch the meeting of lovers as they pause in the crowded streets at this sweet time of year, to drop into a picture house at his will, to wander here and wander there, lingering at dusty book stalls or staring into shop windows, to have a little job and the capacity to get away with it, he would without doubt, be glad to start life all over at fifty without...
...Behold him a skulker; a non-American; a 'poor sport'; lacking the man hood to play the Game...
...continuous process from school and college to professional school and life, he thought, perhaps, that he had solved his problem. No longer would it be necessary for anxious parents and eminent educators to exhort the youth of the land to earnest study. The figures were plain to behold. The stern portals of Phi Beta Kappa would surely now be thronged by a host of eager applicants...