Word: gaze
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overlooking Springfield, Mass., one day last week gathered seven Episcopal bishops, their clergy and many a rich and cultivated worshiper. The grey-haired, 86-year-old retired Bishop of Massachusetts mounted the pulpit, preached on "The Quickening of the Spirit." Almost abruptly terminating his sermon, the oldster fixed his gaze upon a tall, younger man sitting at a table in the centre aisle. "My son!" said he, "my father used to say to me again and again, 'No man has ever been blessed throughout life as I have been.' I have repeated these words for myself...
...actor, Robert Taylor is distinguished by a bovine quality to which a mooing voice, a serene gaze and a certain air of incongruous gravity are invaluable contributions. As a character, he is industrious, assured, shrewd, gregarious and psychically well adjusted. His next picture will be The Man in Possession...
Next morning Londoners queued up early to gaze at waxed Mrs. Simpson who was placed in the niche occupied previously by George V. Her brilliantly blue glass eyes were fixed on the waxwork of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and at some distance the figure of King Edward VIII also faced Canterbury...
...announcements, the Student Council grant of $2,500 and the projected clothing drive annually serve to bring Phillips Broks House before the public gaze. This week both events are once again causing a slight ripple on the placid surface of undergraduate life. The ripple is, however, but a suggestion of the busy activities carried on by this organization...
...bound volume of letters written on the occasion of the firm's 80th anniversary by the nation's great. Visitors are allowed to thumb through the volume and, if themselves distinguished, are occasionally invited to sit in the Founder's own chair. Generations of dead Talcotts gaze from their portraits on the walls of the office of President J. (for James) Frederick Talcott, the founder's son, who is now 70. His son, James Talcott Jr., is first vice president and the ninth in direct descent from the Worshipful John Talcott, one of the British-born...