Word: staring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...gallery to visitors during meal-hours? No respectable hotel would permit their guests to be so treated, and no person of good breeding would ever allow himself to stare at another while he is eating. There might be some palliation for the offense if people merely came to look at the Hall for a few minutes and then left. But some visitors come and remain there for an hour, merely to watch us eat, as if we were wild animals in a cage at the menagerie. I feel assured that an order closing the gallery during mealtime would receive...