Word: gazing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vociferous tribute to Frank Norris.* Bojer is of Scandinavian peasant stock. His youth was one of struggle and poverty, but he soon learned to dream. The essential poet in him developed early. He himself says : "The best education for any child is a window through which it may gaze upon some fairy world." A youth spent near the wild sea and on the wild crags, listening to the stories of peasant women, tending flocks in the mountains-there could be no better for the development of a mind which was later to bring to a great understanding of the human...
...sorrowful lady. She wants to go home to her children. She wants to take them into her arms and look into their eyes and tell them that she has never disgraced them. She has done nothing in her whole life that hasn't been open to the public gaze...
...that done, of showing them what they should do to obtain that freedom, and what the college can do to help the general plan. He sets up an ideal, which, unlike many that have been puppeted before the public in recent years, does not disintegrate under the steady gaze of any really curious observer...
Throughout the Winter there was noted in the tangle of traffic in the New York theatre district a certain automobile radiator mounted with a sweeping pair of steer horns. Little boys, old men, actors, girls, prosperous personages stopped to gaze agape at the primitive ornament. " Must be advertisin' something" was the preliminary reaction. Closer inspection revealed that it was advertising something...
...Saida (Sidon), Syria, 600 beautiful and unmarried girls pine for husbands. There are none in Saida. Sadly they gaze across the Mediterranean and sigh for the United States. The Syrian quota is full. Desperately determined, the girls would sail to the three-mile limit and invite matrimonially inclined Americans to choose their brides. This suggestion is said to have reached the Near East Relief...