Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those classes of people must now stand aghast. First, those commentators on American government who held in their writings that the Supreme Court stood as a legal bulwark against democratic tyranny. Second, those foreign statesmen who recall what American writers and politicians said in connection with the war debts--that if was "morally reprehensible" for sovereign governments to "funk on their contracts." The third class is not really a class, it is just Senator Borah. Will he endeavor to have his legislation, making it impossible for governments that defaulted on their debt contracts to borrow again in the United States...
Because it was not merely a shipwreck but the culmination of a series of disasters to Ward Line ships, the sinking of the Mohawk last week left the country aghast. Only five months ago the Morro Castle, her captain mysteriously dead, caught fire and burned with a loss of 124 lives (TIME, Sept. 17). Last week she was still beached off Asbury Park. N. J. Last month off Florida the Havana for no good reason went aground 20 miles off her course (TIME, Jan. 14). That a third major disaster should befall the Ward Line last week was regarded...
Last week the eccentric Minister of Education was out inspecting elementary schools, flew into a tantrum on discovering that many Japanese moppets now refer to their parents as papa and mama, even as pop and mom. Aghast at this latest result of U. S. cinema invasion of the Orient,* the Lloyd George of the East rushed back to Tokyo, decreed from his Ministry of Education that on school premises Japanese children must hereafter "refer to their parents with proper respect" as O-to-san (Honorable Father) and O-ka-san (Honorable Mother...
...armament makers of France--yet it must not be said with any melodramatic connotations. Probably the conspirators are not bad men at all in their personal lives and their individual contacts with society. Sir Basil Zaharoff, the passion of whose declining years is orchid culture, would probably not be aghast at the suggestion that he was the greatest murderer the world has ever known. He has heard it too often. And he may even enjoy the irony of his gifts (they took a few millions out of the hundreds of millions he made from the World War) for hospitalization...
Finally he entered the New Lecture Hall one day, confidently attacking the French Reading exam. Came Der Tag--he had failed, and miserably so. His room-mate was aghast, asked him whether he had done any studying...