Sentence:  But watching Mrs. Cyril Ring , Berniece Dalton Janssen , Mrs. Robert Jarvis , Mrs. Walter Adams order low-calory seafood , no bread , I could <WSD>see</WSD> the Ziegfeld Girls of 1920 were determined to be glamorous grandmothers of 1961 . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally