Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...atrocity" by leading Jewish news organs everywhere. Unperturbed, the Anglo-Arab police prepared to keep the Jews at bay While the Mohammedan owners of the Wall proceed to lay an extra course or two of stone upon it-seemingly with no other purpose than to render all Jewry aghast at the sacrilege...
...being struck for him only a few miles away. Heflin, ever the cunning strategist, covered his main point of attack by the blatancies of convention excitement. Meanwhile his benchmen were elsewhere, stabbing deep. When morning came the shamrocks in the blinds of ex-Mayor Curley's home looked down aghast at the great sign on the lawn: "Heflin for President...
Boss Murphy and his henchmen were aghast. Without Hearst many a job might be lost. Perhaps Smith would have to go overboard. They tried to reason with him. He stayed in his room chewing his cigars, spitting, scowling, swearing. "No, no, NO!" he roared...
...more obvious, juicy manner of a movie scenario. Even when he has a problem which presumably he feels to be formidable, he must deal with it in cream phrases. His problem is intermarriage between an estimable Jew and a female of the higher social register. Her family are aghast in the grand manner, and the scenes are laid in such living-quarters as a villa in Fiesole, morning room in Mr. Farquhar's house, Park Avenue; the Duchess de Bercy's house, Avenue de Bois de Boulogne. All this is so fearful that one is apt to forget that...
Fascist observers were aghast to think of the inference which could have been drawn had small Bruno mentioned only the King, or, worse still, only his father. No statesman, indeed, could have bettered small Bruno's tactful blending of filial and national loyalty. Skeptics wondered what smart Italian publicist had invented or at least polished the tale...