Word: gape
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...Cyril Tolley, ponderous British ama teur champion, caused natives to gape by resting on a shooting-stick between trudges around the course...
...Melodrama. In a stovepipe hat, and suiting of extreme flare, a jovial peddler startled New England villages out of their mid-century placidity to gape at a wagon resplendent with paint and varnish and polished brass, four white horses jingling the harness. Gilded letters announced "JAMES FISK JR. Jobber in Silks, Shawls, Dress Goods, Jewelry, Silver Ware, and Yankee Notions...
...this year, in deference to his friend. Candidate Lowden; and who, even if Candidate Lowden is altogether out of it now, continues unreceptive for motives that may well contain as much party loyalty as shrewd personal circumspection. Should the Dawes attitude become receptive now, the rift in Republicanism would gape indeed, for subtlety breeds suspicion. Vice President Dawes has exhibited such subtlety in the past that his inheritance of the Lowden support, after all that has been said and denied this year, would be viewed as downright discreditable in both...
...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...