Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicagoans named Jiskra, Charbulak, Recoschewitz, Pytlowski, Napolilli, Masacek, Trnka and so on were slightly aghast last week at their own temerity. They, performers in Chicago's Symphony Orchestra, had asked for higher salaries, $100 per week for regulars, $75 per week for extras and substitutes. They had been getting, respectively, $80 and $55. But, unlike the musicians of the Chicago Civic Opera (TIME, April 11), they had not obtained their demands. The patrons and managers of fine music in the city of wind and superlatives were convinced that symphonic salaries could be boosted no higher. In consequence President James...
...Premiers, pleasurably aghast, viewed the mighty steel framework of these sister ships, each 730 feet long and to be equipped each with five 600-horsepower heavy oil engines, capable of driving the ships 4,000 miles without refueling at 60 miles an hour. Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare explained, pointing with a chubby handled cane, just where the 100 passengers to be carried by each ship will berth, asserted that they will be served six-course dinners, 50 at a time in the dining salon, will promenade upon two decks between which will ply electric elevators...
...indefatigable; that she sewed up baseballs for the neighborhood urchins; kept Harvard boys out of scrapes; slaved for one and all in kitchen, study, school, hospital. The saccharine type of "the nation's pure and enlightened womanhood," for which she was the unwilling inspiration, would have been aghast, as another generation is reassured, by the tart honesty of her journal: "I'm selfish. I want to go away and rest in Europe. Never shall...
...Valenciennes, France, topers sipped blear-eyed one midnight last week. Suddenly they stared aghast as a lion bounded in at the door. Some ran; four stayed, one laughing loudly, saying, "I've seen them before!" The lion took a leg of mutton from the counter, stalked out the back door. A tiger, escaped from the same circus, ate an entire lamb in a butcher's shop, was captured fast asleep...
...succeeded by his elder and able daughter Bertha who in 1906 married Dr. Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach. At that time, Germany was just getting into her stride in the naval competition with Great Britain, and the demand for steel was enormous. Before the War, visitors to Essen stood aghast at the monstrous flame-belching foundries hastily proceeding with their grotesquely demoniacal output. And during the War Frau Bertha Krupp von Bohlen was undoubtedly the most potent female defender of the Fatherland...