Word: gazing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dreamers who gaze while we battle the waves
...their money to see the "Battle of a Century", and crowds invariably gather to hall a champion prize-fighter, or watch an automobile accident, or a dub being photographed; just as what O. Henry called "professional rubberneckers" have dons from time immemorial. But all this overflow of curiosity to gaze on champions, or white elephants, for that matter, is certainly not now and does not indicate a state of moral depravity any more now that it did in the days of that prince of "rubberneckers", Samuel Pepys, who "did wait two hours to behold the King his progress...
...world's gaze rests on the actions of America". Such was the pith of convincing argument in favor of American initiative in the matter of disarmament, made by Mr. Frederick J. Libby, Executive Secretary of the National Council for the Reduction of Armaments, in a recent interview for the CRIMSON. Mr. Libby is a graduate of Bowdoin and has also studied abroad. He has lived in many European and Asiatic countries, has been engaged in relief work in Europe, and was in intimate touch with the recent events of the Washington Conference...
Messrs. Nathan and Mencken have directed their editorial gaze upon the Universities; in the February issue of "The Smart Set" is the fourth of a series of articles on "The Higher Learning in America". It is written by Mr. Gilbert Seldes, a Harvard man, and, naturally enough, is an article on our own University...
Similarly, every type of person, every touchy weakness--of "us mortals," is picked up, held to public gaze, ridiculed and thrown in the discard. It is certain that one person alone would not enjoy this play; but when comfortably seated in the midst of a large audience, it is as delightful as it could be, for then one is sure that it is always the 'other person" at whom the missile is aimed. It seems to be somewhat of a case of "You can make some of the people wince all of the time, all of the people some...