Word: gazing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they spoke for most Americans, their countrymen revered the New England giants, even when age had left them like a range of extinct peaks on a receding horizon. Critic William Winter walked in the moonlight to touch the latch of Longfellow's gate. Others traveled to Concord to gaze at Emerson's woodpile. Young William Dean Howells walked up Lowell's path with palpitating heart...
...invests this comet and, at length, the whole of his narrative, with a strange symbolic radiance. At the end, the comet masked by storm, the ship helmed by a halfwit, he is wrecked. When he comes to, he, the halfwit, a dog, a cat, sit on the sand and gaze into the gashed hull. The beach is one intricate fabric of escaping footprints. The most valuable of the animals were insured; he is glad of their liberty. Into the sack that once carried his loving serpents he has scooped the black sand, richly loaded with titanium. It will be tested...
...being revived by his creator, "Burt L. Standish" (Gilbert Patten, who last week went to Camden, Me. to finish The Return of Frank Merriwell), has become a small-town editor (Millville, U. S. A.), dauntlessly crusades against vice, still fixes all comers with "a calm and steady gaze...
...News-Times: "The death of George D. Stevens, paper-mill executive and philanthropist, is the cause of sorrow and widespread regret in this community. . . . Those who knew him best cherished his friendship the most. His philanthropies were large, but the extent of his benevolences was never submitted to public gaze...
That was not all George Stevens had "never submitted to public gaze." For more than 30 years he had hidden behind his beard a secret which his fellow townsmen never suspected, learned only after he was dead. Dying, he had spoken of a brother, Grant, in Akron, Ohio. Grant Stevens was notified, and the body was taken to Akron for burial. Hartford City friends, who attended the funeral and met Stevens' brother, his aunt, several nieces and nephews, made the discovery that George Stevens was a Negro...