Word: gaze
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family of Hartford, Conn., though little Pierpont's grandfather, red-nosed, craggy-faced Abolitionist Preacher John Pierpont of Boston, had fights with some of his non-Abolitionist parishioners. In his school days "Pip" was a fun-loving, feverish, arrogant character with a temper and a direct, wide-open gaze. He and Joe Wheeler, later a Confederate cavalry leader, risked their necks and expulsion to carve their initials on the school belfry. While Father Junius Morgan was becoming a rich merchant banker in Boston and London, Pierpont went to school at Vevey, Switzerland ("makes fun of things," noted the schoolmaster...
Today, 4,000,000 Finns are daring to resist the demands of the Soviet government representing 170,000,000 Russians. As a result, while charting themselves an extremely perilous course in foreign relations, the Finns have caused the people of the world to gaze with incredulity and curiosity at the one Baltic nation not capitulating...
Declaring that "many turn their gaze with renewed hope to the Church, the rock of truth and of charity," Pius XII nevertheless took note that, to many, the precepts of the Church are "an object of suspicion, as if they shook the foundations of civil authority or usurped its rights." This the Pope denied. But he forthrightly marked off the Church's stand when he said: "So many noble minds separated from us ... are recognizing in the Catholic Church principles of belief and life that have stood the test of two thousand years . . . [the Church] is generous...
...same relative position in his medium of expression, that of stone, as James Joyce does in the world of the novel, and his work is as difficult to grasp as Joyce's. To the religious person, the ADAM looms large as a distasteful desecration of the scriptures; some people gaze in silent admiration; others use the statue as the butt of obscene vilification...
Last week Mrs. Clews, now living in La Napoule, where she is writing her late husband's life, announced that her sculpture-encrusted Chateau de la Napoule will be permanently thrown open to the public some time this year, expose to the tourist gaze the medieval riches, actual and Clewsian, of the archwayed, sarcophagied, fountained interior...