Word: gaze
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conservatism; and those with conservative opinions, no matter how original they may be, are often regarded as the unthinking offspring of the upper crust, with opinions borrowed from their tycoon fathers. There is little glory for the young reactionary, while his brother "red" may easily bask in the public gaze merely by staging a demonstration...
...desire for achievement and success." His idea of the millennium in Manhattan includes a vision of the time when motorists will "inquire after their grandmothers' health in the midst of traffic ... fire engines will proceed at a snail's pace, their staff stopping on the way to gaze at and dispute over the number of passing wild geese in the sky." But he is glad U.S. faucets do not leak like the Chinese brand. "If I contradict myself here as a Chinese." shrugs Dr. Lin. "I am happy as a Chinese that I contradict myself...
...hours the body dangled from the scaffold as Beirut natives halted their early morning tasks to gaze on the grisly scene. Women milled about, bargaining with guards for a piece of the hanging rope, chattering that it was the best protection against barrenness...
...While hordes of moppets in San Francisco's Chinatown did a thriving business shining shoes, promising to turn over their nickels to the China war relief fund, their elders gathered in St. Mary's Square to gaze at a massive, glittering simulacrum of Dr. Sun Yatsen, the Christian scholar and republican hero who ended Manchu rule in China in 1912. Nearly 20 feet tall on its pedestal, the figure has head, hands and feet of red granite, body of stainless steel, cold-hammered to the shape of a military tunic and mandarin's skirt. Materials were provided...
With a whinnying of trumpets and a rolling rataplan of drums, the curtains at Manhattan's Shubert Theatre parted this week to disclose two apparently naked gods reclining on a cloud, their bare bottoms perked toward the heavens, their amorous gaze fixed on the somewhat startled audience. The bare bottoms were moulded of impersonal papier-mache, but the silver-bearded Jovian head on the left was unmistakably that of Alfred Lunt. Theatre Guild subscribers, present for the Manhattan opening of Amphitryon 38, settled back expectantly in their seats. They realized that Jupiter Lunt's eyes were not feasting...