Word: flabbergasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rebuke" and "abuse." Among merged words now in common use are flabbergast (flabby & aghast) and chortle (chuckle & snort...
...last week in Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, where engineers of Bell Telephone Laboratories and a trained operator demonstrated a complicated electronic device called Voder (short for "voice operation demonstrator"). Voder creates a variety of sounds resembling human speech closely enough to be easily intelligible. It is intended to flabbergast, enlighten and amuse visitors to this year's world's fairs in San Francisco and New York City...
...belated government press handouts the hush-hush Opera conclave had three objectives: 1) to combat a lying press campaign against Germany which Herr Hitler believed was being launched abroad; 2) to reassure citizens of the Saar that Germany is the ideal country for them to join; 3) to flabbergast the world with a fresh, monster demonstration of German loyalty to the Realmleader. After Orator Hitler's speech, according to the State's handout, "he was rewarded with spontaneous applause. One might well say that surely treason does not lurk about him. Only loyalty stands watch over...