Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tree or pick up a pin. The same might be said of our democratic form of government. In New York City Mayor Hylan has become terribly excited about the City Hall cat, which lapped up six dollars and fifty cents' worth of milk last year. The city administration is aghast at this peculation of the public funds. Why cannot Robert, the cat, eat the scraps from the janitor's table and save the common people all this vast expenditure? cry the city fathers. The Mayor has ordered a "sweeping investigation," a "drastic inquiry" into this barefaced attempt to pick...
...believe that the young men inside had been--I blush to say it--imbibing. I distinctly saw two young men--(I have reported their names to Mr. Tibbetts of the Christian Association)--engaged in drinking a yellow fluid which I knew intuitively to be beer. I was still more aghast to see that they made absolutely no attempt to conceal their act, and, indeed, actually seemed to enjoy it. Imagine my feelings, fellows! I asked a policeman to put a stop to it at once. He refused. I have sent his number to Mr. Tibbetts. The officer informed me that...
...York alumni who are fairly aghast at the University's closing its doors to Mrs. Pankhurst, may I not have the privilege of your columns to urge all the undergraduates who can, to hear her speak at Brattle Hall, for the double purpose of thus making amends for the University's lamentable blunder and of hearing one of the ablest orators of the day? As one who has, professionally, listened to most of the leading American public men, I feel that her address at Carnegie Hall last year was one of the very greatest from any source it has been...