Word: stare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...semi-nude against a clever perspective, done in sombre blues and browns by Italian Felice Casorati. Neither this nor the third prize ($500) winner, Family Portrait by young Josef Pieper of Düsseldorf, Germany, was distinguished by that finality of excellence which makes good critics stand long and stare. Nazi Pieper's painting, which this year won the State Prize for painting at the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, seemed to many critics more successful in the first part of the artist's purpose: "To subdue every element-drawing, form and substance-" than in the second...
...with champagne. Even thicker than sample-passers from food companies at the convention last week were wine and liquor salesmen, whose stocks of courtesy cocktails ran out fast. Budweiser was served free on the hotel roof. A waiters' champagne race down Broad Street made staid Philadelphians stare...
Would you mind answering it? 'Could you tell us the average age of world dictators when they come into power?' " Said Mr. Miller: "No, I could not." Everyone turned to stare at the two women. One of them was easily recognized as Alice Longworth, but she was not the writer of the note. Columnist Dorothy Thompson, wife of Sinclair (It Can't Happen Here) Lewis, was. One of the witnesses was Ferdinand Pecora, Justice of New York's Supreme Court. Familiar with Senate investigationl from his Job as chief inquisitor in the banking investigation...
...unhappy contrast is "The Iron Duke", of which the only thing that can be said is that Arliss is Arliss, and a poorer one than usual. His usually quizzical expression is frozen into a leering grimace and glassy stare by the awful grandeur of Waterloo. Platitudes fall more thickly than the cannon-balls, and the attempts at humour miss their mark as widely as do the French gunners. Not even the Tsar of Russia, the King of Prussia and the King of France can save this bit of historical mummery from utter deadliness. But even this shouldn't keep anyone...
...free port, which has an area of 78 acres. Of this, 60 acres are the murky waters of the bay, 18 are solid land. A 12-ft. wire fence, costing $30,000, has been laced around the solid acres. To bar the bay to smugglers, two photoelectric eyes stare steadily across the half-mile harbor entrance...