Word: staring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read of "T. R. Zaun" and his pet lion, who registered at a Manhattan hotel just before the film Tarzan of the Apes took the screen; of "Achmet Ben" and party, who entered Manhattan on a "secret" search for "The Virgin of Stamboul"; of the children paid to stare into a store window at September Morn, upon her debut in this cold world, until Anthony Comstock came and raised the fuss that sold Miss Morn into the millions; of "Lot's Wife," sculped in salt to advertise The Queen of Sin and left lying about with a note...
...these creatures, but flying men in all sorts and conditions of craft, migrating to Dayton's fifth international air meet.* By the opening day the swarm numbered about 350 commercial, military and amateur or "gypsy" fliers. Thousands of groundlings flocked also, for there were to be exhibits to stare at, races to gasp at, "stunts" to make one marvel...
...conversation, the almost perfect technique of knife, fork, and spoon which would inevitably ensue. Consider the staggering spectacle of three hundred feeding students rising simultaneously to their feet upon the appearance of the lady of the day. Consider--but no. Why speculate on the impossible? Those grimaced Puritans who stare down from the walls would never tolerate such goings-on. Cotton Mather and the rest would revolve in their several graves...
...story dates from an old play called The Road to Yesterday. The characters stare soulfully at the spotlight and wish for the romantic glory of the Middle Ages; the lights go out, stage hands scurry and scenery bumps in the darkness; the lights revive on a 15th Century garden. Victor Herbert snatched the opportunity to inject a rousing old-fashioned marching-drinking song which, with The Dream Girl ballad and Miss Bainter's I Want to Go Home, are the leaders of a highly melodious evening...
...longer will the proprietor of the esoteric den use "Shoppe" for "Shop"; on more can stenographers delude anyone into thinking that Sanskrit is good English; no more will street-car conductors be able to say "Watch yer step" instead of 'Take care of the drop" without meeting the haughty stare and the raised eyebrow of regenerated America...