Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Row Q (seventeenth row, rise please) there was one consoling feature. The leading lady, one Jeanette Macdonald, seemed remarkably good to look upon. Of course the seventeenth row has certain disadvantages for such observation, but she really was quite good. Only one other feature can possibly be mentioned within a city block of the word "good" and that is a group of what are billed as Chester Hale Girls. They do a few very well executed dances...
...Above all things, would he have the American people believe that a political party with that record in office could look upon it with satisfaction?. Does Mr. Hoover want the people to believe that he looks back with satisfaction upon that record? It will not satisfy the American people to have him pass that question on to the chairman of the Republican national committee; nobody can answer that but himself...
Lord Melchett, onetime Sir Alfred Mond, paid $200,000 for a servant who can do no work. But the servant is pleasant to look at-for it is a painting by Rembrandt of his own servant, Hendrickje Stoffels. Sir Joseph Duveen, the seller, said that he was glad an Englishman got the painting, though an American would have paid him a higher price...
SENATE COMMITTEE EXPECTED TO LOOK INTO $16,000,000 CONTRACTS...
Hard it is to look at a Gothic building without a romanticizing ophthalmia, harder still to consider a Gothic personage. Francois Villon is generally conceived to have been a frisking, lyrical scapegrace, much in the manner of John Barrymore's cinema portrayal of The Beloved Rogue, an essentially harmless, buoyant, inspired fellow.* The just biographer must be proof against the delusive magic of medieval names and picaresque histories...