Word: agog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Avon Old Farms' closing was only the most recent of a nearly continuous series of shocks to the school-which have kept the fashionable Farmington area of Connecticut agog as to what Mrs. Riddle and her unusual educational foundation might do or exhibit next. Theodate Pope Riddle was born in Salem, Ohio, the daughter of Alfred Atmore Pope, who had a fortune from Ohio iron mines. Her late husband, John Wallace Riddle, was U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Argentina. Mrs. Riddle went down on the Lusitania, but came up again and collected $25,000 damages from Germany. She studied...
...zero hour approached in the battle of Europe, both sides were agog last week over secret weapons...
...merely exorcised; miracles happen whenever Wilde cannot undo one of his knots." London also has a good Peter Pan and an even better Alice in Wonderland, with décor modeled on the famed Tenniel illustrations, and statuesque Dame Sybil Thorndike as the White Queen. Half of London is agog to see Sybil "on wires...
News of the week: Company Baker is all agog over the drastic plan for reorganization of the NTS rat-race . . . it is rumored that everyone is moving ashore the first of the month, with the possible exception of Company Dog . . . they're telling around that most of the local mugs will be billeting at the Commander in a surprise merger with the Supply WAVES!!! . . . Now, pleeeaaasee don't quote me, pal, but I heard a fellow behind me in our first class this morning and he was bumpin' his gums, giving his gang the row-down . . . Oh, yeah...
...hands. They all have the air-talk habit. A handsome New England prep school at Sheffield, Mass., Berkshire this year generated unwonted zip in its student body by teaching them to fly as a regular part of the curriculum. This week 40 fledglings in this pioneering airprep school were agog over the first of their number to take his test for a pilot's license. With 35 hours of soloing, 17-year-old James D. Geier of Cincinnati had beaten out his headmaster. Headmaster Albert Keep still has only...