Word: beholding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Text: "And behold there was a very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful, and it stood by the highway side"-Pilgrim's Progress. The Sermon: Archibald Davis (James Bell, who went to the electric chair in The Last Mile) and his wife Jennifer (pretty Mary Phillips of Oh Promise Me, a heroine at last) are very honorable and romantic people who buy a house in a miserable little New Jersey subdivision. As the years roll by, Archibald's scruples prevent him from making any money. He is too honest to sell his firm...
...Ramsay MacDonald all but sobbed with emotion in a typical appeal to the House of Commons as debate on the Round Table Conference work began: "If you are prepared to march our soldiers from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, if you are prepared to stage-for the world to behold-the failure of our political genius and to provide, simultaneously, the spectacle of bringing your name and fame very low-then refuse to let us proceed...
...treat to President Hoover to see himself in newsreels periodically shown at the White House. But he may well be startled to behold himself and Mrs. Hoover performing on the East Room screen if Universal Up for Murder, now in production, is given a White House run. To play the part of "Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover," Patrolman Tom Jensen received special leave of absence from the Los Angeles police force. Jessie Perry acts Mrs. Hoover. They have nothing to do with the plot. They simply sit in a box at a Washington ball. In the story, laid in Washington...
...came yesterday, by registered and special delivery mail, from Kauhava Puukkotehdas, in Finland-the finest Puukko knife I have ever seen. Hand made, six-inch tainless steel blade, black ebonite handle with my name embossed thereon in gold leaf, and with genuine leather sheath-it is a knife to behold...
With vague thoughts of prospects of a high table such as heads the dining hall in Lowell House, Dunster House residents yesterday evening were startled to behold a mysterious scaffolding in the banquet-hall of that building...