Word: beholding
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...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...
...when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. . . . They departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.-Matthew...
...When the hymn ended, the gesticulations of the half dozen people ended and the audience -So deaf-mutes-broke into spirited applause. The pastor of Cameron Methodist Episcopal Church of the Deaf, Rev. August H. Staubitz, arose. With lightning fingers he signaled his flock that they were about to behold a lecture on the Passion Play of Oberammergau, for which each of them had paid 10?. The lights went out save for one beam from a shaded lamp near the screen. The lecturer began flashing magic lantern slides, explaining them in a booming voice. An interpreter, his hands flickering continuously...
...When the S.S. President Cleveland slowed up at the International Date Line to take on the deep sea mail, lo and behold there were two copies of TIME which had passed the Cleveland waiting for me there to read en route to Manila...
...call coming to the new station opens the doors automatically. If the man in charge of the office that is the control room of the fire house wishes to open the doors at any other time, the only work he has to do is to press a button, and behold, the electrical magician gets to work and opens them both swiftly and noiselessly...