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Word: staring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resist a maid's "Come hither" stare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/8/1925 | See Source »

Approach these honest bones, nor stare aghast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRING RECALLS ANCIENT MIDNIGHT RAIDS ON CHAPEL MEDICAL MUSEUM | 4/7/1925 | See Source »

...ripping open his coat, peered curiously at the young man's vest. Mr. Arlen was annoyed. I explained to him that we had looked for checked vests and pink shirts and, instead, found a neatly tailored quiet suit of blue. We had thought, perhaps, to encounter a haughty stare, and found, instead, a pleasant and somewhat puzzled grin. "I can wear pink shirts if I must!" said Mr. Arlen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Arlen | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...they say it is he?the shriveled corpse in a glass coffin, scaled these four centuries, with a foot hacked off, a hand gone, a slash in its throat. For a few pesos, the monks of the cathedral will take you into the dusky chapel and gloat, while you stare, at the mummy-like remains in black vestments.* They will tell you, old hatred burning beneath their derision, that this shrunken carcass was once the Conqueror of Peru, the boisterous cattleman from Panama, who sailed home to Spain and had himself made Viceroy of New Castile; who sailed back; slaughtered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toreador | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...staffs are not all the same men but they are the same sort of men. An endless parade of enchanting creatures appears on the covers ? Harrison Fisher girls, W. T. Benda girls; an endless company of interestingly dressed and undressed lovers and haters pant, clutch, embrace, struggle, strike, stare, pose or sit pensive and forlorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sequelae | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

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