Word: gazing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weighed still present no valid reason why a person should not stroll across Boston Common at the first appearance of the tulips and the Swan-boats; wander through the vaunted architecture of Copley Square; mingle with a good natured, entertaining holiday crowd against a rope and before a policeman; gaze with awe at series of exhausted men who have run twenty-six miles for glory: and not, having done all this, enjoy it immensely...
...respite following the restful days of a New York vacation the Vagabond furtively returns to his former haunts, the oppressive shadow of approaching divisionals hard upon him. All honor be to those hardy souls who braved the tormenting mirage of vacation to brood over notes, and outlines beneath the gaze of the everpresent Goddess...
...history writing sometimes tends to emphasize the weakness of the great men of the world. It exposes the foibles to the contemptous gaze of the present in a reckless fashion which often fails to make allowances for the greater qualities. The true history of the present day seeks for a mean which presents both sides of the picture, that difficult blend of light and dark which composes the ideal color...
...Down. Two toughened adventurers annoyed and battled with each other all over the world until at last they clamped together in the heat and sog of the tropics. The cause of the final brawl is Evelyn Brent. In a sodden camp on a Latin American oil field, four men gaze hotly at her. One is George Bancroft, alternately brute & gentleman, star of this affair. He hulks, and moralizes, fights, and suffers to no profit...
...York City," declares Mr. Lee. "Stalin, as the head of the Communist Party, is the 'Charlie Murphy' of Russia, and he has many of the characteristics of the late Mr. Murphy, the chief of them being that he works silently and away from the public gaze. . . . The immediate destiny of Russia is in his hands...