Word: staringer
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when "he was interrupted by a piercing shriek from Shelley." The author of Rise like lions after slumber grasped "his ruffled head between desperate hands" and staggered from the room. "Pacified with a douche of cold water and a whiff of ether," he explained that he had been staring at...
Jeeves opens his campaign by nudging, winks, side remarks, or some times by just staring at "some stuffy woman," following every motion from hand to mouth. Some people go to the headwaiter and complain, if the event is large enough to merit such a sizeable staff. "Once", he said, "the...
Into its tanks went sea creatures: sharks, channel bass, tropical lungfish, giant morays, sea turtles, penguins, alligators, crabs. There were monstrous fish, fierce and implacable; sullen, unfriendly fish; fish that clung like parasites to other fish, twisting their sinuous tails in the green water, staring at the shadowy faces beyond...
Photographer Hill's technical problems were enormous. His camera was a homemade, boxlike contraption with a shutter that was pulled open and pushed shut by hand. Its exposures lasted from two to six minutes. To get his subjects to sit still so long he propped their arms and torsos...
The U.S. which emerged from that survey was not all green and growing-there were the dispossessed and the unemployed, photographs of sharecroppers' children with beaten, intelligent eyes staring up from Asiatic squalor-but the general impression it communicated was that the U.S. would fix such conditions, and that...