Word: staring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heron injured at the Bronx Zoo is one of the most singular of all creatures. Five feet tall, grey, gaunt, spindly-legged, it lives naturally in the White Nile marshes. Its head is extraordinarily large, topped by a little curled tuft. The eyes scowl, when seen from the front, stare brightly in side aspect. Queerest is its great bill, which clacks-clacks hollowly when the bird gapes or preens itself. That bill closely resembles a shoe (whence the popular name "shoe-bill") or the head of a whale (hence the scientific name Balaeniceps...
...smile that verges easily into a sneer, a peculiar hypnotic stare, and a pantherlike bound are other useful attributes of Comrade Krylenko. On the first day of the Shahkta Trial he strode in wearing what U. S. citizens would call a hunting costume: khaki coat and breeches, soft roll collar, homespun stockings, hobnail shoes. To be sure all Russians present in the Hall of Columns were roughly attired; but Hunter Krylenko's costume seemed significant. Within a few hours he had wrung confessions from three small-fry technicians which should set them before a firing squad, and ever since...
...been incautiously heralded so often since that it pleases her to ponder a question which few painters would be brave enough to frame: "What do they think about these things when they go home to supper?" The people who stare at her pictures of apples, pears, eggplants, leaves, stalks, high buildings, rivers and tremendous flowers, interest her enormously. She, like George Bellows and unlike almost every other U. S. artist, has never gone abroad and doesn't want to; she paints all day on the 30th floor of the Shelton Hotel, Manhattan; her face is austere and beautiful; she does...
...exaltation has now become more sorrowful, more wise. For three years, through sandy eastern countries, he moves in a golden path of quiet and beautiful happenings. The people who live in small villages have heard about a man who is the son of God; lepers, in fields and ditches, stare at ragged hands that have been made smooth. There are three more scenes at the end of the three years; one in a great crowded room, one in a garden in which the flowers are drawing together, one on a hill outside a town. After that there are legends...
From Buffalo went Dr. Eugene G. Wiseman to explain myopia (nearsightedness) to the American Academy of Optometry at Manhattan last week. When he said that humans still look as fishes do, his audience thought of those coldly glaring individuals popularly called "fishy-eyed" because their eyes have the impersonal stare of a dead fish. Dr. Wiseman meant that human eyes are not set squarely on the front of the face. Human eyes are cocked slightly to each side...