Word: stared
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Boston crowds who uncovered as the colors passed were exceptional. Hardly a voice was raised in protest against the hundreds who did not. Stupidly good-natured and lackadasical, they were there to see the glitter and color, to hear the bands play, and, quite naturally, to stare at Marshal Joffre. And in the midst of all the spirit of celebration, to the thousands who lined the streets the flag seemed to have no particular significance...
...drawings of Mr. Lavalle are easily the leading features of the issue, and most of them are very creditable indeed. The reader is struck by the puns which stare at him from every corner of every page. Fortunately no intimation is given as to who is responsible for these...
...cosmopolitan breadth, the highly (?) educated--in the bookish sense,--young man of America is fond of talking in an impassioned way of the infinitely superior knowledge and the supremely finer moral sense of all Europe. Any attempt to reply to such a point of view will receive a blank stare and the answer that your inability to see in itself proves the national mental inferiority as exampled in you. That is a fairly unanswerable argument; the old one of saying a man is a fool because he is not wise enough to see he is a fool...
Meanwhile our "Eastland," our Peabody and Triangle fires, our child labor problems and our huge production of munitions for private profit in mushroom towns where labor laws are laughed at or abrogated, all these stare us in the face when we speak of "national honor and human justice...
...Class Smoker as it is today represents the survival of the fittest method for bringing a class together. The most ineffective form of smoker is that at which men stand with a few friends, eat a few crackers, drink ginger ale, and stare at every one else. The most successful form of smoker is that at which a certain amount of entertainment is provided for, and at which the different men are drawn informally into a general enjoyment of everything. This form has not as yet, however, come to anything like its full realization. To any that have attended these...