Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slings & Arrows. Aghast at these antics, the doctors began to probe into Lanza's past. They found that during his two years as a "surgeon"' in the New World (he spent eight months in Venezuela and Colombia before going to Guatemala), he had never produced a single document to show that he had attended any medical school. Instead of the "200 successful operations" he claimed to have performed in Guatemala, he had actually done only eleven, not all successful. But he had gathered in far more than eleven fees, by collecting from prospective patients in advance...
When she read Senator McCarran's blast last week, Mrs. Shipley knew just what to say: "Preposterous!" That was all that was needed. "I want to make it abundantly clear," an aghast Pat McCarran cried the next day, "that the laxity . . . is not chargeable against [Mrs. Shipley] the chief of the passport division. It is apparent that [she] has simply not had the cooperation of the topflight officials of the department...
...Manhattan's elegant St. Regis Hotel last week, a waiter carried two tomatoes on a tray into the suite of Mrs. Tillie Lewis of Stockton, Calif. She was aghast at the bill ($1). "You tell Vincent Astor,"* said Mrs. Lewis as she signed the check, "that these tomatoes cost him no more than 5? apiece, that's 1,000% profit." Said the waiter: "I guess you know your tomatoes...
...they are obviously wooden dolls, badly made, and can only cackle, clatter . . . and hop or slide in heelless straw sandals across floors . . . I believe the Mikado laughs when his ministers have a cabinet council." One Japanese item was no laughing matter for a Bostonian: "I was a bit aghast when one young woman called my attention to a temple as a remains of phallic worship; but what can one do? . . . One cannot quite ignore the foundations of society...
...Hell Scene follows-or rather postscripts-the classic Don Juan legend. Juan has been in Hell for some years; the Commander he slew has been longer in Heaven; and Dona Ana, the Commander's daughter whose seduction led to the slaying, has just died. She is indignant and aghast at having been consigned to the underworld; even the discovery that her father is moving there by choice does not appease her-better, as she sees it, to yawn in Heaven than revel in Hell. This, she is told, is not the fashionable view: Heaven is so dull that almost...