Word: gazing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steamer Oaxaca,* for the use of which I am paying $50,000 monthly, to seek swordfish and other wild animals in and around the Gulf of California. I had the Oaxaca completely done over to suit my taste. Aboard, our feet will rest on Oriental rugs; our eyes will gaze on rare paintings; our faces will be cooled by electric fans; we will sleep in twin beds instead of berths...
...Gypsy Tent to-Pulpit" or "Three Years with the Boys in France"); then he asks all who "intelligently feel the need of Jesus, and mean to give themselves to Him, body, soul and spirit," to rise in prayer. He does not make them trample moldy sawdust before the public gaze. His converts are led into the "inquiry room" where pastors and personal workers act as nurses after a surgical operation, where they are told to rejoice and to go to work winning new souls. For 50 years Gypsy Smith has opposed the snow-white pulpits and the gaudy theatrical devices...
...hour of twelve will see the Vagabond in the neighborhood of Appleton Chapel, casting his bewildered gaze first towards the Fogg Museum where Professor Post finishes his series of lectures on "Florentine Painting of the Fifteenth Century," and then towards nearby Robinson Hall, where Professor Conant speaks on "The Early Christians and their Architecture." After a number of indecisive starts first in one direction and then another, by which erratic motion passersby may penetrate the disguise of the Vagabond, the matter must in all probability be settled by the tossing of a coin...
...When the trap was sprung, the victim's clothing prevented her from falling completely through, but exposed her to the ministrations of two men with cat-o-nine-tails below. Thus the Empress Catherine could witness the agony of those whom she wished to punish without offending her gaze with the vulgar aspects of chastisement...
...Governor, but he is the sole military, civil and judicial head of the islands and is responsible to no one except the President. Few would be the wiser if he had his subjects wash his feet, rub his brow, lull him to sleep. "King" Waldo I will soon gaze upon his domain-the islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John, and some 50 adjacent islets controlling the Virgin Passage at the gateway to the Caribbean Sea, 60 miles east of Porto Rico, 1,400 miles from Manhattan. The Virgin Islands were, as every schoolboy knows, discovered by Columbus...