Word: beholds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Babbitt in The Show-Off. In the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Craig's Wife he impaled a woman who put her house ahead of her husband; in Behold the Bridegroom he sentenced a girl who was guilty of amorous trifling to lose real love when she finally found...
...Come and behold...
...night, by flashlight, she wrote an answer: "We have learned a great deal about our American soldier and the stuff he is made of. The wounded do not cry. Their buddies come first. The patience and determination they show, the courage and fortitude they have is sometimes awesome to behold...
...while Washington, with the American Army, lay encamped at Valley Forge, a certain good old Friend, of the respectable family and name of Potts, if I mistake not, had occasion to pass through the woods near headquarters. . . . As he approached the spot with a cautious step, whom should he behold in a dark natural bower of ancient oaks, but the commander in chief of the American Armies on his knees in prayer...
...with the Nazi Count of Argentina." Miss Kellems, 48-year-old parson's daughter, who last January briefly denied she had ever known Zedlitz, raged in a statement for the press: "The perfect coordination . . . among Secretary Morgenthau, Mr. [Columnist Drew] Pearson and Mr. Coffee is a joy to behold. . . . Come off the floor of that House, Mr. Coffee, where you are protected by your Congressional immunity. . . . Before the New Deal destroyed the last vestige of decency . . . any man who would do what you have done would be publicly horse whipped." She said she had already given the State Department...