Word: gapes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room was hot and tempers hotter. The Justice Department was conducting a drive along the lines of its Standard Oil action three weeks ago (Time, April 6, et seq.). Gape-jawed Senators were told that General Electric (through its subsidiary Carboloy Co., Inc.) and Remington Arms (Du Pont-controlled) had conspired with German munitions interests (Krupp and I. G. Farben) to monopolize vital war materials, restrict their availability to the U.S. and Britain. Angry Carboloy and Remington officials made the familiar reply: if they had not made a deal to get.the German patents, the U.S. would have entered...
Nevertheless, the article will probably not make as good an impression of Yassar and Wellesley as the undergraduate body had hoped. The Harvard man in Life's interpretation doesn't do much more in a day's work than smile through a cordial bull-session and gape at the Eliot House Tower. A more virile portrayal would have been preferable. There should have been a shot of the football squad or the crew licking Yale, to remind our public that we can do it. Or, failing this, the magazine could have casually slipped in a few views of a brawny...
Republican Philadelphia enjoyed its gape at a U. S. President, but was not so excited over Candidate Franklin Roosevelt. Neither were the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania (see p. 43), whom he addressed in Convention Hall where Wendell Willkie had been nominated. Like Willkie's, his applause came mostly from the galleries. But Mr. Roosevelt had come to address the nation, not the visible audience...
...Miss Chase's husband, William Murray, radio director of the William Morris (theatrical) Agency, originally had a hard time getting on the air because sponsors considered it too bright for day time audiences. Now it moves along so briskly that sponsors are thinking of letting the general public gape while the Luncheons are in progress. Only outsiders permitted to join the pressmen and sponsors' pals who now attend the Luncheons are those who write in on very smart stationery. On no such stock was one of the letters Miss Chase received from a Midwest housewife, who wrote...