Word: gape
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have troubles enough without letting the public gape at the results of my lectures." So complained a Yale English professor the other day as some of his students set out to maul Harvard in a three-hour skirmish on the field of English literature...
...majority of the professors of English Literature, fearful lest their pupils disgrace themselves, deplored it. Said one Yale professor: "I have troubles enough without letting the public gape at the results of my lectures." Said another Harvard professor: "It may not do any harm, but I do not approve...
...flagpole and people will gape. Put a woman in a public boudoir: will not people gape and gape again? Believing that they will, M. Rich & Bros. Co. (department store) of Atlanta, Ga., engaged Edna Kirby, cinemactress, to live in one of their show windows for a week. She arrived in Atlanta one morning last week, was welcomed at the city hall by Mayor I. N. Ragsdale, then went about her window business-a daily routine of lounging, eating, lounging, dancing with callers, chatting, tidying, lounging. At 9 p. m. she prepared to retire. The curtains of the show window were...
...done more to show that the pedestals of the great are sandstone rather than granite, no one has been more active in lowering the portraits of emperors and potentates so that the public may first gape and then conclude that man is created equal after all, than Dr. Emil Ludwig. Napoleon, Bismarck, William H. Lenin, Washington, Wilson and so forth have all been exhibited on the point of Dr. Ludwig's free-flowing pen, and the world has admired, marveled, and pondered a few historical inaccuracies...
First came the three leading members of the Defense Committee? Gardner Jackson, Aldino Felicani, Mary Donovan. Each kissed the brows of the dead. An uncountable crowd, pushed and prodded into line by police, shuffled stuffily after to scowl, weep or gape. Miss Donovan was arrested when she tried to insert an anti-Judge Thayer placard among the funeral flowers. She was later sentenced to a year in jail, appealed the case. Artist William Gropper of the New Masses was not admitted when he came to make bier portraits...