Word: beholding
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Tribune readers waited anxiously for Friday morning's World. When at last they beheld it, they turned to the editorial page?and there, lo and behold, was a squib entitled "An Apology." Smiles wreathed the faces of the followers of the Tribune. So the World knew when it was wrong, did it? The World was courteous enough to apologize for its offences. With a new respect, they settled themselves to read: "The World made a high bid for the House memoirs; we do not blame the Herald Tribune for its resentment...
...barge, a jungle, a boulder-strewn backwoods farm. He has reached into "ordinary" people's lives under "commonplace" circumstances and handled them with an intensity that seems deeper-rooted, more inarticulate, more confusing than ever. We are used to seeing rivers dredged but it is appalling to behold excavations in the front lawn...
...coastal plains. It is a tedious train trip; wise people take the sleeper. By automobile it is more pleasant; the roads are excellent and through the Pennsylvania mountains there are gorgeous views. But best of all is to fly it. Then you can soar above the farmlands, circle and behold the cities like great wens on the face of nature, swoop up and over the mountains, dallying if you like on the long downward slant to peer off east to the continent's end and the long Atlantic ground swell. Last week a boy of 14, Farnan Parker...
...until another round of speeches had been indulged in. M. Briand's address was the only one either greatly moving or notably significant. Rising to his full height, he cried: "At last the spirit of solidarity takes the place of that of distrust and suspicion. . . . Opposite me I behold the German delegates. That does not mean that I do not remain a good Frenchman! They are good Germans! But in the light of these treaties we are good Europeans only! . . . By and over our signatures we declare for peace...
Hoary Siamese croaked again, as they have croaked throughout the 15 years of King Rama's reign: "Behold what comes of a Siamese King with an English education! Fate has doomed Rama, who abolished the harem of his fathers...