Word: gaze
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very delaMare. "Thus Her Tale" tells of a suicide's ghost that still haunts her undiscovered bones, hidden in a thicket. In "The Owl," a baker's wife and daughter are shamed and frightened out of their wits and into their true selves by the silent gaze of a mysterious beggar. Poet de la Mare loves not only poetic language and tricks of speech, but poetic words as well: whist, clomb, darnelled. He writes swang instead of swung because he likes the sound...
...towers. Many of those who waited, to solace themselves took down some volume of an antick poet or tragedian, and reposed themselves on the window-seat or upon the luxurious cushioned benches. Some were seen to become immediately absorbed in the skillfully told fable before them, others to gaze abstractedly out of doors at the dark and mysterious evergreens. Still others occupied themselves in scrutinizing the many beautiful female passengers, who continually entered and went out by a little gate at the back of the chamber. All those who thus took their ease were, however, allowed but little time...
...tadpole. It has well-developed eyelids which wink. Powerful muscles enable it to use its pectoral fins like arms in hoisting itself a little way up wide-based tropical trees. When the periophthalus wishes to it can lift the front part of its body with these fins, gaze solemnly around, blinking like a dowager basking on her elbows at the beach...
...write this letter merely with the feeling that these are facts which should be balanced against your editorial of yesterday. The building of Andover's tremendous plant may have blinded the public gaze to the more subtle changes going on within, but these continued nevertheless. Lee Howard...
...never changed-the continual approach to cheaper and better transportation. And prouder than the Royal Family were the Industry's engineers. The Automobile Show is really their show. The new models on display were dissected a thousand times by their prying minds. Dignified men lay prostrate to gaze at the marvels of a new clutch. Nor will the observation of the engineers end in Manhattan. If Chrysler's Fred M. Zeder is curious about the new Pontiac he may have one sent to his plant and placed on his "Belgian Road." a machine which shakes and sways...