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Word: gapes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...definitely closed, New York (probably fearing the vote of the nine million taxi-drivers in the widely known metropolis) stayed silent. Accordingly Mabel Normand opened in The Extra Girl. It turned out to be a feminine edition of Merton and guaranteed harmless. The scandal-starved hundreds can gaze, gape and grin at Miss Normand to their hearts' content and bring their children. For those who align themselves with this department in Considering screen Mabel an exceptionally comic personality, the picture will appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 28, 1924 | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

...across the plain, incontrovertible facts in such terms that even your facile, plasticene minds cannot mistake them. Your faculty are nothing but puppets, and you, fools, you are like the little boys in the streets who pay in the hard earned nickels at the gilt ticket-window, to gape at the sham wonders put before you in the guise of truth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 5/4/1923 | See Source »

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