Word: gazing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is little to stop them. "Chaperons" may suggest a stern body of older men who sit stiffly on the edge of their chairs and rivet their eyes on guilty pairs, but they are actually no more than friends from across the hall who can be privately instructed to gaze out the window...
...calls for German men, too. "Brazilian girl, 27" and "Hungarian girl, 23, relatives in South America" were looking for husbands last week. The price: 500 marks down and 500 upon marriage. For an extra 100 marks, applicants could attend the "social evenings" to dance, sip red wine, cocktails and gaze at prospective partners...
Farewell to Grace. His chapter on Grace Moore was written before her death: ". . . she was one of those obnoxious little girls, congenitally exhibitionist, for whom some sort of career that would keep her before the public gaze was inevitable. . . . She doesn't really love music...
...privilege in the show, trims his partner, boosts his own name into stud-horse type. "When business was high the money rolled in so fast there was no time to sort it, so [it was] shoved into a bushel basket. . . . Gus enjoyed picking up the basket and feasting his gaze on that green currency. Sometimes he plunged his hands deep into the basket, like a bear pawing wild honey...
...over Ohio, the President was dozing on a cot in his stateroom, when the radio message came. Martha Truman had died. When he had read the message, the President said: "Well, now she won't have to suffer any more." Dry-eyed and silent, he turned to gaze for a long time at the checkerboard countryside below...