Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summer, horses on Washington streets heave and collapse. Eggs are fried on the northwest corner of 14th street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Idlers gather about the Weather Bureau's kiosk 100 yards away to watch the thermometer break 100° at midafternoon. Downtown streets are virtually deserted from 11 a. m. to 4 p. m. Men-in-the-street go about in their shirt sleeves...
Along the borders of the Occupied Territory from Strasbourg in the south to the borders of Holland, watch fires were lighted as a protest against "German war guilt...
Elevated trains stopped to watch. An advertising airplane roared and blinked overhead. A smart police cordon idled around in the outfield like alert mannikins on a playing board of green baize. But in the bottom of the cone of white light at the centre of it all, Fighters Schmeling and Uzcudun did much more butting, grasping and shoving than sparring, smacking, socking...
...last month while she was in England to be presented at Court. It was not, however, to play him a return match that she had returned. It was Wimbledon time. The Bishop, like many another distinguished oldster, began making the 15-minute trip out to the new stadium to watch the players practice and then begin to play for the highest titles the tennis world holds...
...stolen hours every day with Anne and Françoise, young daughters of a neighboring poor-but-proud royalist family. Françoise, unlike Anne, has no bent for politics. Her energy is of the 1929 vintage. "In her arms and legs, movement lay coiled, as in the springs of a watch." When Molinoff smokes his fragrant cigarets, drinks his whiskey & soda, she does the same. When he plays Negro jazz records on a phonograph, she sways all over. She looks at Molinoff "with the eyes of a little girl that wants to be played with." But Molinoff, woman's man that...