Word: stare
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...month San Franciscans have stopped to stare idly at what, so far as anybody knows, were the first Chinese picket lines in the U. S. Last week Joe Shoong filed suit against the Ladies' Garment Workers for $500,000 damages and finally got an injunction to stop the picketing. Also, last week, the Ladies' Garment Workers applied for an injunction to stop Joe Shoong from putting signs in his windows implying that the dispute was purely jurisdictional. In addition to indignant notices saying that the pickets were C. I. O. while the clerks in the stores were...
Said one Stoughtonite, cramming for his History exam on his window seat as the fourth contingent stopped to stare, "They might at least offer us some peanuts...
...semi-nude against a clever perspective, done in sombre blues and browns by Italian Felice Casorati. Neither this nor the third prize ($500) winner, Family Portrait by young Josef Pieper of Düsseldorf, Germany, was distinguished by that finality of excellence which makes good critics stand long and stare. Nazi Pieper's painting, which this year won the State Prize for painting at the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, seemed to many critics more successful in the first part of the artist's purpose: "To subdue every element-drawing, form and substance-" than in the second...
...with champagne. Even thicker than sample-passers from food companies at the convention last week were wine and liquor salesmen, whose stocks of courtesy cocktails ran out fast. Budweiser was served free on the hotel roof. A waiters' champagne race down Broad Street made staid Philadelphians stare...
Would you mind answering it? 'Could you tell us the average age of world dictators when they come into power?' " Said Mr. Miller: "No, I could not." Everyone turned to stare at the two women. One of them was easily recognized as Alice Longworth, but she was not the writer of the note. Columnist Dorothy Thompson, wife of Sinclair (It Can't Happen Here) Lewis, was. One of the witnesses was Ferdinand Pecora, Justice of New York's Supreme Court. Familiar with Senate investigationl from his Job as chief inquisitor in the banking investigation...