Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city for its convention last year. Lawyer, farmer, banker, son of a Kentucky clergyman (Protestant), strong of mind, bold of speech, he will now take prominent place on the political battlements of the capital. Briefly, his duty will be to eye the Hoover administration; to look for, mark, proclaim its errors; to direct against it the archery of partisan criticism until next election. Chairman Raskob prepared to withdraw into the Democracy's inner keep, there to plot great political stratagems for the future, out of the public eye. Said he firmly: "I have no intention of resigning...
...GEST PLAYS JUDAS AT THE HIPPODROME. . . . Despite protests by Jews and non-Jews . . . Morris Gest carried through his program . . . the story of the Crucifixion which has caused more Jewish agony, persecution and oppression. . . . Were we a devout Christian [and had we seen the Gest production] we could never again look upon a Jew with kindliness and respect; the commandment. 'Love thy neighbor,' would definitely exclude Jews. . . . When two Jews [Morris Gest, David Belasco] indulge in such an obvious commercialization of the Gospel story . . . we must characterize the producers . . . as highly reprehensible from the Christian attitude, and, from the Jewish...
...experiments. In the opening scene a toy boat sped across a pan of water propelled by a piece of camphor in its stern which gave off a thin film of camphor on the water. Periodically Dr. Langmuir appeared in the screen and said, "Now, if you will kindly look over my shoulder. . . ." Then followed a "closeup" of an experiment in progress. He pointed out that the talkie saved him the expense of carrying to Columbus and erecting elaborate apparatus; that after once filming an experiment a university could repeat it indefinitely for its students at nominal expense. He told also...
...announced for auction by the present Sixth Duke, "owing to the exigencies of the present times." For 119 years the Portlands had loaned it to the British Museum. But last week, as it stood on display in Christie's London auction rooms, many a Britisher went for a last look. Everyone supposed, of course, that "some rich American" would carry off the treasure. Even Edward of Wales strolled in, peered at the exquisite white and blue glass scene of the marriage of King Peleus and Thetis, Queen of the Nereids. It was made known that he agreed with connoisseurs...
There is a fairest and most illuminating time to look at a great man dead. That time for Karl Marx, holy father of Socialism of all tints, from palest parlor pink to Russianest Soviet red, is his poverty-stricken, voluminously literary period in England (1849 to his death...