Word: agog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Women who measure off the scale of happiness in units of jewels, cash and fame were agog, last week, at the unprecedented good fortune of three international damsels...
Vienna was agog last week when the German Chancellor, Dr. Wilhelm Marx, accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Gustav Stresemann, arrived to return the official visit made a year ago to Berlin by the then Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Rudolph Ramek...
Many citizens were agog when War Birds first came among them. Mothers, sisters, wives-but most of all, neighbors-of the young men who years ago flew in France, affected surprise and concern upon discovering that it was not, after all, a very "nice" war. The young men hated their duty and believed, according to this writer, that the best talisman for an airman was "a garter taken from the left leg of a virgin in the dark of the moon...
...necessity of life, even the austere and reserved Francis Bacon grants. The age of repression, at last in its grave, has been succeeded by an outburst of activity in all fields. Votes for women: colleges for women: short skirts for women: these are among the immediate results. . . Radcliffe is agog to welcome genius in literary guise...
Attorney General and Governor-elect Dan Moody of Texas employs several stenographers in his office. Last Saturday he noticed that a pretty one, Rebecca Bradley, aged 22, had been missing two days. He ordered an inquiry. Later in the day the village of Buda, near Austin, was agog. A pretty girl, after hanging around the Farmers' National Bank all morning, had whipped out an automatic pistol, backed the cashier and bookkeeper into the vault, grabbed $1,000 in bills and fled in her waiting coupé. That night, on identification of the bank employes, the Buda sheriff had Governor...