Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rome, last week, the Pope, passing through the Basilica of St. Peter, heard a confused disorder down a twilit aisle, turned his face to look and, seeing nothing, passed on. A young prelate who had been sitting in that aisle was at the moment being led off to confinement between two Vatican gendarmes. Hearing the Pope's step he had sprung upon a chair, burst into a sacrilegious harrangue. The clever gendarmes did not attempt to eject him. Instead, they attracted his attention by making funny faces until the Pope had gone by. Then they arrested him. The unknown...
...travel.... One should equally avoid the appearance of mendicancy and that of prosperity . . . don't wait to be invited to ride . . . walk on the wrong side of the road. ... It is bad ethics for a man to ask women motorists for a ride. However, it is permissible to look at them in an interrogative way, and if the ride is then proffered, it would be impolite to refuse...
Alfred North Whitehead: A philosopher, generous and kind, whose thought pierces deeper than others look...
...prayer had not hurt him. Twice he was caught?once in a trap, once in a cave. He escaped. The hills were poisoned with strychnine. He lived. It was then that the natives declared that God alone could kill the killer, for though in form he had the look of a great leopard he was not a leopard. He was Satan...
...night the Captain heard the thud of paws, flashed his electric torch on a black and yellow Presence with jewel eyes that leaped out of the forest upon the goat's back. His rifle roared; he knew that his aim had been true, but when he sprang forward to look he found the goat lying dead in a pool of blood with the marks of incredible claws in his back. There was nothing else, no dead marauder. The captain turned upon his gunbearer a face in which horror whitely flickered. Could it be?...