Word: staring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...RATHER ENJOYED IT?P. G. Wodehouse?Doran ($2). This is one of those books which, if read in a club car or dentist's waiting room, will cause people to glare at you, pretend to stare out the window and finally move away. Readers realizing that private mirth is a public nuisance will, unless malicious, arrange to meet Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge in some secluded spot. He is a rather large, angular young man with a napping yellow mackintosh, a piercing eye, a jumpy back collar-button and no economic roots in society save vigorous tendrils of loquacity with which...
Folk will pay money to stare at any rarity?whether it is a man who plays exceptional tennis, or a woman who can swallow a snake, or a cow with seven legs. It was inevitable, then, that Vera, Countess Cathcart, being the most prominent woman ever kept out of the country for her turpitude, should either compose or appear in a play. She did both. Last week the play, called Ashes of Love, was produced simultaneously in London and in New York (via Washington...
...supposed to be 60; 2) Stanton, equipped with a beard at least two feet long and portrayed with a stock "old man's shuffle" suitable to street mendicants; 3) "Hook" (Drinkwater's fictitious cabinet member), played as the chief character; browbeating the diletant President, transfixing him with the reproving stare of a Victorian "stage father...
Cried the Westminister Gazette, unintentionally pat, "Don't stare at the Prince of Wales"; continued with an editorial in which Britons were urged to safeguard the Prince from serious risk of a breakdown by "respecting his privacy...
...attorney subpoenaed him as a witness. He, with a gentleman's reticence for airing his losses in public, avoided the subpoena. Hundreds of detectives believing him to be concealed in his Manhattan house, beleaguered the place. The press played up the episode as a farce. Crowds gathered to stare; the announcers on sightseeing buses developed a new speech...