Word: beholding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands of churches throughout the land this Sunday, devout Catholics will drop 1? in a plate in the vestibule, help themselves to copies of a magazine named Catholic Missions. On its rotogravure cover they behold a sea-&-sunset scene captioned: "Enchanted Isles. In the islands of the South Seas 1,566 missioner priests, brothers and nuns are laboring efficiently among 1,835,030 natives." Thumbing through its 24 smooth, substantial pages, readers see rotogravures of the Pope in a procession, a Chinese moppet learning the rosary, a Japanese babe on an old man's back, Indian nuns and Chinese...
...family who have been dispossessed. John puts up signs inviting other jobless to join their community-a carpenter, a stone mason, a barber, a violinist, a tailor, an undertaker, an escaped convict. They build shacks, plough the fields using manpower, a motorcycle, decrepit automobiles. When they first behold a seedling they exhibit naïve joy and the carpenter leads them in prayer. But before their crops are ready for harvest their larder is depleted. The convict saves the community by arranging for one of them to get a $500 reward for his apprehension. Then comes Drought. Gloomily John...
...Behold the stomach: crammed from every dish, The tomb of boiled and roast and flesh and fish, Where bile and wind, and phlegm and acid jar, And all the man is one intestine...
...week with a service in honor of Cardinal Lepicier in the Cathedral of St. Mary. To the Sanctuary went 25,000 people, for masses, processions, hymns, Marian sermons, disputations on Mariological topics. For all who wished a souvenir there were small yellow-bound copies of Cardinal Lepicier's work, Behold Thy Mother...
...amused, Often the worldly and sage Harvard man can gain a kind of indirect pleasure by disinterestedly smiling, with his easy attitude of superiority, at such a Hollywood travesty as "Harold Teen." Hal LeRoy plays the vacuous Harold Teen with an inanity at is marvelous to behold, He also manages to fit some of his dancing in at the end of the picture. Rochelle Hudson, too, seems to realize that she is in the funny papers, and adapts her dynamic portrait of Harold's high-school sweetheart, Lillums, accordingly. The high-school girls are like those in this particular version...