Word: gapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt assured them. For a morning's amusement she drove down to see Henry Ford's coal mines at Pond Creek, then ran across into Virginia, lunched at a roadside stand near Norton and from her running board made a little speech thanking the crowd which gathered to gape at her. By nightfall the ladies had crossed through eastern Tennessee and were at Asheville...
...that afternoon at The Bronx Zoo pop-eyed New Yorkers crowded around the lizards' cage. They gaped at the mottled grey hides, tough and beaded as an Indian bag. They blinked at the great red mouths and serrated teeth, the long forked yellow tongues flicking in & out like a snake's. They shuddered at the wicked claws, long and sharp as a good-sized leopard's. Well might New Yorkers gape, blink, shudder. To most of them a lizard was a six-inch creature which eats flies and scuttles under leaves. These lizards were 9 ft. long...
Smug Cambridge barbarians repairing to the Germanic Museum to obtain a little more polish for their cultural veneer, gape dumbly at the exhibit there now on display. So foreign to them is a spirit better constituted to create than to jape, to judge, not jape, to direct, not to drift, to lead, not to lag, that they apprehend only their own failure to understand the inspiring evidence of the German spirit placed before them...
...nobody could steal the show from them. With salty, side-whiskered Father Howard Ernest Wheeler looking on, the big cruiser, a yacht-like affair with flying bridge and twin screws, was warped into place with less than a foot to spare. Crowds stood in line to go aboard and gape at her two staterooms with yellow brocaded bedspreads; her tiled shower with hot and cold water; her three toilets, her spacious saloon; her dining nook; her galley with gas stove, refrigerator, pantry. Unusual for a ship of that size was the flying bridge, with all controls away from the social...
Some 350,000 people, including 100,000 over Labor Day weekend, visited the State Park in Watkins Glen, N. Y. to gape across a deep, narrow gorge at the buck deer with horns in velvet which, presumably chased by dogs and injured on the flank, had become marooned on a rocky ledge (TIME, Sept. 4 & 11). No end of elaborate wiles and artifices, including stuffed deer, an Indian chief, a plank bridge, were brought into play to lure the animal from its prison, all to no avail. Park employes feared that, if frightened, the buck might plunge over the brink...