Word: beholding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Into St. Peter's, hung with red-&-gold draperies and flaming with myriad chandeliers, are to crowd Roman and foreign notables, thousands of plain folk and pilgrims from all lands. On its lofty walls they behold enormous oil paintings of Bernadette Soubirous and her good works in life. Pope Pius XI enters, in triple crown and embroidered white cope, borne aloft on his sedia gestatoria. He proceeds to the altar, followed by cardinals, archbishops, patriarchs, bishops, monsignori and priests, who kiss his ring and the cross on his slipper. The air is heavy with incense...
Before the reporter had finished asking Pete if he had any tattoos himself, the talented artist had ripped aside his ragged shirt and lo. and behold! a huge squirming serpent slithered slowly across his heaving chest. "His name Medusa", proudly explained 'Pete. "The grand master, he done that. It take him two days. He say it do best masterpiece he ever...
...shock. So, Dearest, do not think me rude If I yield now to lassitude, But sympathise with me. I know You would not have me roar, or crow. When he can manage to subdue his wit something simpler and better emerges: I gaze and gaze when I behold The meadows springing green and gold. I gaze until my mind is naught But wonderful and wordless thought! Till, suddenly, surpassing wit, Spontaneous meadows spring in it; And I am but a glass between Un-walked in meadows, gold and green. The Author's most famed productions have never...
Marvelous to behold in an Astor-financed publication was a cartoon by Art Young, of all oldtime anti-Capitalists one of the most irreconcilable. He showed Individualism, with crutch and running nose, penitently ringing the Government's doorbell in a snowstorm...
When we had opportunity to appraise the energies of Colonel Charles R. Apted '06 yesterday afternoon, we were somewhat inclined to regret our previous animadversion re Spanish Trunk labels. It was a joy to behold Harvard's Harried Hawkshaw grouping Newsmen on the front stops of Weld Hall so that F. D. R. Jr. could escape by a back way. There were no interviews, no posed photographs. Even a roommate avoided the stigma of borrowed glory by holding a large cardboard over his face...