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Word: gapes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been advertised as the main speaker, only to find that his speech was to be played off a record. At a rally in Wall Street a lunch-hour crowd ignored the New Deal speakers (ex-OPAdministrator Leon Henderson, ex-Ambassador to Norway Mrs. J. Borden Harriman) to gape at a 1944 campaign hat designed by Sally Victor, the topical milliner. The hat, "The Commander in Chief," is a light blue beret with a red-white-&-blue cockade and ribbon, to sell for "about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Big Barrage | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

...same approach is being used tonight and over 200 couples are expected to gape and admire. '47's only class function will also be the biggest all-Harvard function this year, but otherwise it remains another good old Jubilee, carrying on a quarter century of tradition

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Frolic In Mem Hall as Auld Band Plays At Jubilee Tonight | 5/19/1944 | See Source »

...Then new fields flowered in old Europe. Bombed towns were rebuilt. Trade and handicraft revived. . . . Culture and art arose which caused the surrounding world to gape with admiration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Prize Dream | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...vast Executive Chamber, where clemency hearings and full-dress conferences are held and visitors come to gape, hang the portraits of many past Governors of New York. The gold frames cover the mahogany walls, deploy along the full-length glass windows and over the hammered brass fixtures of the great fireplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Dewey & Dragon | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...said that? Wuddya mean, do we dance with one another? Don't be silly, fel'a, that's the part we've been saving for now. Most of you gang go out during your great big one hour off and slug at the golden beverage and just gape at the feminine gender as they sit in other booths and the like. Do you gape over here?--heck no! There are whole mess of swellegent gals to dance with over there. In fact--and form a single line for this one willya--the girls have been outnumbering the men. Are they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/23/1943 | See Source »

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