Word: beholding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week many a famed Manhattan nightclubber received an astounding form letter. Excerpts: "You are cordially invited to attend the gala opening of the Fifty-Eighth Street Country Club. . . . If you found a soupçon of enjoyment in my former place . . . in this Mecca of Merriment you will behold . . . the titillating tintinnabulating secret excitations of the Congo and flesh-shuddering, goose-creeping horrors of the Grand Guignol!" The letters-there were two editions-were signed: BELLE LIVINGSTONE...
...10th, 1930, Dartmouth students were ambling through the customary groove of Hanover life in peaceful contemplation of spring, when lo and behold there came murmurs and growlings and editorials and tension, and then the fury of open revolt. Dartmouth had gone "shorts" mad, Hanover and neighboring merchants were besieged with orders for shorts of any description, and the campus became a colorful pageant of bare legs and bizarre shorts. Those who could not purchase abbreviations, hacked off their trousers and flaunted legs which never faced public eye before. Led by the Dartmouth and other organizations the movement spread rapidly...
Professor Frederick Grant Banting, 38, of the University of Toronto, proceeded from his home in Bedford Road, Toronto, a warmish morning last week, to behold a concrete compliment for his isolating insulin from the pancreas (sweetbread). His University, which had already created a chair of medical research for him, this morning was going to dedicate his splendidly-equipped Banting Medical Institute. In black silk robe gaudy with doctorate trimmings of four universities Professor Banting spent a long day attending ceremonies and meals, hearing speeches, encomiums. Pat was the praise of Berkeley George Andrew Lord Moynihan of Leeds, president...
...fear of the United States reigns in Latin America. . . . We behold the shadow of a dreadnought behind each Yankee dollar [invested in Latin America]. . . . American military occupation in Haiti must...
Swart little Cubans who live between Cape Guancs and Cape Hicacos assembled on the shore of Matanzas Bay (60 mi. east of Havana) last week to behold a marvelous sight. Floating straight from shore toward the Gulf Stream, more than five feet in diameter and more than one mile long, a vast shining serpent lay upon the water. It was a serpent made of heavy, corrugated steel tubing-the deep-sea section of the pipe which Inventor George S. Claude of France had been laboring more than a year to lay, and through which he planned to draw cold water...