Word: gazed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Ley's heart and mind were further opened to the public gaze: 1) in Berlin, where his will was read; 2) in Washington, where the results of a postmortem on the suicide's brain were announced. The bibulous Nazi labor leader's will paid dithery tribute to "the beautiful women who have embellished my life so much," Inga (wife) and Madeleine Wanderer (mistress). U.S. Army pathologists, who have had the Ley brain since last October (see cut), found that the areas controlling behavior had suffered "a longstanding degenerative process . . . sufficient ... to have impaired...
...worthy function: holding a mirror to a recognizable U.S. life. The late Clare Briggs's Mr. and Mrs., as an appreciation of marriage, made books like Cass Timberlane .look as naive as Daisy Ashford. Harry J. Tuthill's remarkable Bungle Family, almost alone among comics, dared to gaze steadily at the plain, awful ugliness and clumsiness to which the domesticated human animal is liable. When you have counted these -and Frank King's mild, wholesome Gasoline Alley, Chic Young's Blondie, J. R. Williams' homely cowhands and mechan ics in Out Our Way, and Gluyas...
...Rome's chief of police Pietro Caruso), handcuffed but smiling. He took his place behind the wooden rail of the prisoner's dock. His tall figure with its small, cruel head was momentarily silhouetted against the light as the carabinieri removed his handcuffs. Koch let his gaze wander with an air of unconcerned, conscious superiority over the crowd. The characteristic twist on the left side of his mouth seemed to mock the spectators...
...their old, informal way of life during the hot months. (Independence would be no cooler than Washington.) Said Margaret: "I just want to spend the summer sleeping." But there was already evidence that things would be a little different-motorists drove down Independence's North Delaware St. to gaze curiously as painters worked on the cupolaed 80-year-old frame house...
...future visitors ... gaze at the mementos of Franklin Roosevelt, they will be well aware that he was an extraordinary man, with an extraordinary consciousness of history and of his part...