Word: gazing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Line them up on the rear wall," he added to one of four assistants. Soon the diners, shivering and ashamed, their skinny, ponderous or hirsute legs exposed to the gaze of the facetious bandits, stood along one end of the restaurant. The robbers searched their "pants" for valuables extracted a total of $400. One of them devoted an idle moment to robbing the cigar counter...
...Chapman Andrews cabling accounts of antediluvian exhumations in Mongolia, the American Museum of Natural History (New York City) was never more widely advertised than last year. There was the Scopes trial in Tennessee, which sent thousands of news-following New Yorkers and out-of-town visitors to stand at gaze before the evolutionary figures in the famed hall of the Age of Man. The Museum had 142,047 more visitors than in any previous year, 1,775,890 in all. Its subscribing membership increased by 1,055 to a total of 8,519. Its educational program reached...
...Manhattan Senegalese who went to gaze at their murdered idol remembered creditable things of Battling Siki. They remembered how during the War he was mustered into the French Army-an ebony-muscled bully-boy of 18, with a jungle smile and an arm like an ironwood tree. He was given a musket with a long knife on the end of it and told to do thus and so to all who wore a certain uniform. Siki grasped his instructions so capably that, although wounded with shrapnel and bay- onets, he won the Croix de Guerre, two palms, Medaille Militaire, seven...
...fellow members, I know that of old, Cecilia and Seraphs were fascinated and men were enraptured; I know Timotheus, with magic strain, led rocks, trees and beasts to follow him; I know that the notes of Orpheus entranced them and enthralled the underworld and caused the gods to gaze thereon with envy, and I know that David drew from his harp a chord which swept the gloom from the brow of Saul and flooded Israel's palaces with music and laughter." (Applause...
...steadfastly gaze on the face of the dead...