Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...school along lime-bordered paths past the back-hedges of the burghers of Juvissy, France, little Gabrielle Renaudot, a spindling girl with legs like matches, hempen ringlets and immense brown eyes peering from the wan mask of her face, would pause, with furtive admiration, to watch the famed astronomer meditating in his kitchen-garden. Her mother, Maria Latini, the original of Henri Regnault's famed painting, Salome, was a friend of Flammarion's. When she died, little Gabrielle went to the great man for advice and counsel. Was she fond of Science ? That was what he wanted...
Captain Arrachart, famed French airman, stepped from his plane at a Paris flying field and turned a stiffened wrist to see the face of his watch. Other officers compared their time to his, excitedly contradicted him. He was just on time, they said. His confidence restored, the Captain pushed his way through the crowd on the landing field. He had just flown around Europe in 39 hr., 15 min. His schedule, which he adhered to with monotonous efficiency, began with breakfast in Paris on Monday, then...
...dire error. It has been adapted from Alice Duer Miller's The Charm School with sedulous aridity of wit. There have been dozens of musical comedies with weak books and strong ankles but few with the contrasts so sharp. If you can stand stretches of ramblings unrelieved to watch Miss Hines and the chorus, now and then, you may like...
DRUMS - James Boyd - Scribner ($2.50). "Watch James Boyd," declared John Galsworthy - a hortative which, unless it was addressed as a warning to some gentleman who had contemplated inviting Mr. Boyd to dinner, has a decidedly complimentary turn, and is reproduced on the dust-jacket of this 490-page novel of the American Revolution concerning the adventures of John Fraser : how his father was a Tory, his lady a revolutionist ; how he, torn between two personal voices and not particularly concerned with the wider issues of his country's dilemma, went to England, France, Scotland, looking for a fence...
...Majesty Queen Mary, keen tennis enthusiast, went to Wimbledon to watch the tennis tourney for the British Open Championship...