Word: staring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Legends that the mongoose crossbreeds with rats, that it can hypnotize a snake with its glassy stare (or vice versa), are groundless. But because mongooses eat rats, mice and large insects, in addition to snakes and birds and their eggs, they have been found useful. Indian natives keep them as protective house pets...
...Luis Ramirez Olachea, who hid nervously behind a tree while President Ibaez inspected cows. As SeÑor IbaÑez made his august emergence, Luis Olachea stumbled uncertainly through the ranks of saluting soldiery, ran forward, waving a rusty revolver. President Ibaez fixed him with an icy stare...
Shout Drug, Inc.! at the casual U. S. passerby and he will stare blankly, show no recognition. Yet Drug, Inc. products are familiar to almost every literate U. S. citizen. What do babies cry for but Fletcher's Castoria? What have physicians endorsed for 50 years but Phillips Milk of Magnesia? Of what should one accept no substitute but insist on the genuine but Bayer's Aspirin? What works while you sleep but Cascarets? These and many other household products belong to the Drug, Inc. family. So do 525 Liggett stores. So do 10,000 Rexall stores, which...
...Garden (Act 4). In all three places he asks this question: "Is a man born a hero or does he become a hero by doing heroic things?" In the Cafe, when a woman eyes him through a lorgnette, he pulls out a pair of field-glasses and returns the stare. This somehow gets him acclaimed hero by the crowd. In the Roof Garden he is about to further prove his heroism by ascending in a balloon as escort of Cinemactress Romerantz. Miss Romerantz, however, cancels the ascent since, due to a sudden newspaper strike, her flight would lack publicity. Thus...
...Windsor Castle early last week to kiss the King's hand, resign as Prime Minister of Great Britain. Waiting at the palace door to receive him was the King's equerry and grouse-shooting friend, Col. Sir Clive Wigram, and King George's favorite grandchild, little Princess Elizabeth, soberly staring over the top of her perambulator. Stanley Baldwin bowed solemnly to "P'incess Lilybet," who continued to stare, and entered the palace. For half an hour he remained closeted with the King, who was still in bed. When he emerged, Prime Minister Baldwin no longer, but the Rt. Hon. Stanley...