Word: staring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well, indeed, that the British Cabinet voluntarily sacrificed their sacrosanct week end, worked Saturday and Sunday to oblige Premier Flandin and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval. Normally in London any statesman rash enough to suggest that the Government forego their week end is met either with a freezing stare or the suave, stock British excuse: "Impossible, I am afraid. In Paris, yes. But in London even a rumor that the Cabinet may find it necessary to break their week end upsets the City...
...Then where is he?" demanded Consul Geist, receiving for answer a characteristic froglike stare. Accustomed to this, as are all consuls in Germany, Mr. Geist pursued his search, could not find Prisoner Roiderer last week in the curious morass of the New Justice...
...next room toy airplanes are being demonstrated. What could be better for that fishing trip in Nova Scotia than a nice toy gilder? Here is another rifle range, bordered by sleeping wild beasts. Beyond, two very discouraged brown bears are trying to stare down their gaping audience...
...should see my son." boasted old-time Cinemactor William S. Hart, whose estranged wife Winifred Westover has custody of William S. Hart Jr., 12. "Why, he walks down the street with his mother and people turn and stare and say, 'There goes Bill Hart.' It makes his mother sore as hell...
...Walter P. Chrysler. Chrysler "floating power" became in France "le moteur flottant" of Citroën. It helped, but not enough. This year, slipping perilously near to bankruptcy, M. Citroën struck out with a new car of his own which has made Paris sit up and stare. It has front wheel drive, "knee action" on all four wheels and lines phenomenally low and streamy...