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Word: gapes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, one Tai Leong, 35, was sentenced to ten days in the workhouse. He was charged with disorderly conduct because he caused a crowd near Delancey St. to "gape and surround" him and to laugh uproariously at his grotesque capers. He was laughing, leaping, singing?drunk on tea, which he crammed into his mouth dry. Since tea was not on the contrabrand list, policemen could not confiscate it when he was jailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...days. I think every American should see this country before going to Europe as so many do. The scenery is quite as wonderful as abroad, and as for atmosphere, ancient buildings and the rest, most tourists get nothing out of these anyway, and might quite as well gape in their own country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schumann-Heink Finds Happy Home Foundation of National Solidity--Famous Singer Much Opposed to Women Smoking | 3/22/1927 | See Source »

...tiny twin boys and committed suicide. The Journal reporter hurried to the Broad Street Hospital, where the two babies-five months old-were lying side by side after they had been pronounced dead. He took their picture as they lay there- the dry mouths contorted in the gape of their last, desperate expiration, their heads twisted sidewise on the pillow. ISADORE AND MORRIS BELINSKY DEAD IN BED headlined the Evening Journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: X Marks the Spot | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...hideous gases and death-dealing ultra-what rays have lost their power to amuse us. We smile at chemistry, and, save when we experiment with the fuse-box in the dark, ignore the extraordinary possibilities of electricity. Complex machinery is to us as an open primer, and we positively gape when someone mentions advanced physics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANOTHER HORROR | 1/15/1925 | See Source »

...Peter's. There he will strike upon the door with the hammer, crying out: "Open unto me the Gates of Justice." At the third stroke, masonry which has walled up the door since the last holy year (1825) will be made to crumble, the holy portal will gape. Assisted by Jubilee penitents, the Pope will then use his trowel to clear away the wreckage and forthwith enter, the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anno Jubilaes | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

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