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Entering the hotel she walked unconcernedly to her favorite table, ordered tea. Since many of the guests were discourteous enough to stare, Mme. Tiv raised her lorgnette and swept them with a reproving glance. Soon a policeman entered, stripped off his overcoat, clothed Mme. Tiv in it and escorted her protesting to a police station. There she was examined by an alienist who pronounced her entirely sane...
...prevalence of Smithness are the prodigious sales, not only of romantic fiction for vicarious thrills, but of American Tragedies, dismal Main Streets and kindred counter-depressants. This book, which mirrors Smithness with shrewd, quaint brightness, will never have such sales. It is not among the Smiths' failings to stare at themselves in a looking glass, though they do like going to Coney Island and seeing how awful they seem in the exaggerating panels of the "crazyhouse...
There is reason therefore to watch the informal meetings of French Foreign Minister Briand with Chancellor Streseman; and all the more reason because these meetings have been succeeded by equally surprising meetings between Mussolini and Austen Chamberlain. No one will yet whisper a word; but watchers will stare long at the graphic possibility,--England and Italy grouped, France and Germany joined...
Boulevardeurs discussed the news over cafe tables placed beneath the lime-trees of the broad Ujazdowska Aleja. Polish Jews rubbed expectant palms over their newspapers in the tumbledown Stare Miasto quarter. Money was coming to Poland, the headlines told, much money, three hundred millions of dollars...
...hers, no girl so jimp a leg. Once she had spent the night with Tom Sawyer in a haunted cave. . . . The old lady chuckled and bobbed her bonnet; she rubbed one eye until it was clear and glanced sharply from side to side like a bird. Let the people stare at her if they wanted to- let them think she was crazy; she'd never tell. Why should she? They'd never believe her. Sam wouldn't know her now-teeth all gone, face wrinkled, hand turned brown. Let them look at her. The college scholar...