Word: gazing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator James A. Reed, Democratic quizzer extraordinary from Missouri, glanced at Senator "Sonny" LaFollette seated below the salt (Caesar to his Lepidus), then shifted glint-eyed gaze to a Negro slouching easily back in his chair. The Senator: "Do you represent the second Chicago ward?" The Negro: "I am treasurer; 1 am chairman; I keep the books; I appoint and dismiss all officers; I am the second ward." Edward H. Wright, colored member of the Illinois Commerce Commission, scorned the U. S. Senate Committee sitting in Chicago to investigate "slush funds of the recent Illinois primaries" (TIME, July...
...prison mine at Lansing, Kansas, a kindly warden stood conversing with his deputy, suddenly turned with tautened lips to watch the sullen file of oil-skinned prisoners shuffle down into the shaft. Defiant of 13 unarmed guards, a seared murderer, a slack-jawed pervert, another and another, turned to gaze with loathing at the man who held four of their number captives to be chastised like beasts for complaining at lack of sheets...
These handicaps proved blessings in disguise. Had America taken over the fully developed European forms there would not have been the originality that our system displays today. The American college, because of its very poverty, turnel its gaze to the instant need of things. It struck deep root in American soil and found the fertile springs of action...
...establish the principles upon which Chase shall be permitted to operate in the future, or I intend that he shall be shown to have no ground to stand on. If he wins, I shall at least have the satisfaction of the knowledge that his activities are opened to public gaze...
...thin satire on which to base his belief that the movies are right, that sin sits in high places. There will be times when other papers, with even less to damn them than "Hatrack" and less to sell them than Mencken, rest in naughty niches safe from the gaze of the Bostonian and the blessed...