Word: beholding
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...years no Maharaja of Jaipur had begotten a male heir. Yet lo and behold! last week a squawling man child was born, the prayerfully begotten son of His Highness the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Bahadur, age 20, salute 17 guns...
...TIME of Oct. 19 under Animals the police-man was "surprised'' to behold the old gent peering through the binoculars. It strikes me that your writer has fallen into the same error in the use of the word surprise as did Mrs. Noah Webster, who was duly corrected by her erudite husband...
...motorcycle policeman of Westchester County, N. Y. was surprised last week to behold an elderly gentleman kneeling in a path through some woods near Scarsdale peering skywards through binoculars. The gentleman explained that he was P. L. Hudson of Brooklyn, ornithologist; that that bird up yonder was an arctic owl in full winter plumage; that winter would come soon...
...Editor Oursler is 38, wrote his first play when he was 9. At 16 he was a reporter on the Baltimore American, at 19 its music critic. He was a piano salesman, law clerk, professional magician before hitting his stride as a novelist and play wright. (Plays: The Spider, Behold This Dreamer. Books: Sandalwood, Stepchild of the Moon.) Few years ago he attached himself to Publisher Macfadden, wrote The True Story of Bernarr Macfadden as a serial in Physical Culture...
...paper that I love, behold...