Word: gazes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florence Sheftel Bache, divorced wife (1925) of Financier Jules Semon Bache of Manhattan, window-shopping in Paris, paused to gaze at a display of stones in a jeweler's show window. Her gaze turned quickly to intent scrutiny. She notified the police, soon recovered nearly all of $160,000 worth of jewels which were stolen from her when, in 1928 at Biarritz, she was chloroformed while napping in her hotel room...
...curious. She always left some token of her esteem, apparently a smaller one each year, until the last, occurring about five years ago, was a single rose. The children of the neighboring Harvard Grammar School obey instructions and occasionally file to the spot, to leave some slight offering, gaze in awe at the name which they vaguely remember having heard in some other connection, and quietly depart...
...Siberia, where he crashed in a blizzard flying to aid an ice-locked furship (TIME, Jan. 6 et. seq.). Two days late for the burial, an airplane from the stormy East brought Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Eielson's comrade on many a frigid flight, to lay a wreath, gaze at the white grave, fly away...
...special editions" were supervised as to content, advertising and correct use of English by minions of the Government. But last week appeared the ordinary annual Japan Today & Tomorrow, published yearly by Osaka Mainichi. First glance showed that it is back to normal. Advertisements withheld last year from the gaze of visitors to the Imperial Enthronement, blazoned forth again. For example, 16 firms touted their sake, and one brand of this potent rice wine slyly boasted its "invigorating qualities...
...late Victor Herbert. The trifling story concerned the larks caused by the proximity of a monastery and a convent. In curious deference to modern religious scruples these institutions have now become a girls' school and a military barracks. The Herbert tunes ("I Love Thee, I Adore Thee," "Gaze on This Face So Noble") are still the best features of the entertainment, are nicely sung by Milton Aborn's revival company...