Word: gaping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon last week at Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.), a fringe of people stood behind a hemp rope. A soldier passed down the line proffering a roll of cotton batting. The people were advised to stuff bits of the cotton into their ears, stand on their toes, gape their mouths. A moment later there broke forth from eight sinister-nosed 75mm. anti-aircraft guns a maddening, vicious cacaphony that made trouser-legs tremble and skirts sway in waves of force. High in the bright ceiling, some 2,000 ft. above, innocent bits of cotton appeared, no bigger than those...
...flyer who last week saved Farmer Walter Schiffer's home at Evansville, Ind. from burning. The barn and smokehouse had burned to earth, the granary was throwing its flames at the house. Neighbors were carrying furniture and gear outdoors. Then-the flyer appeared. All stopped to gape while he, intelligent, flew between house and granary 40 times, fanning the flames against the wind until they died down. Then off he went about his own business...
...Cyril Tolley, ponderous British ama teur champion, caused natives to gape by resting on a shooting-stick between trudges around the course...
...Melodrama. In a stovepipe hat, and suiting of extreme flare, a jovial peddler startled New England villages out of their mid-century placidity to gape at a wagon resplendent with paint and varnish and polished brass, four white horses jingling the harness. Gilded letters announced "JAMES FISK JR. Jobber in Silks, Shawls, Dress Goods, Jewelry, Silver Ware, and Yankee Notions...
...this year, in deference to his friend. Candidate Lowden; and who, even if Candidate Lowden is altogether out of it now, continues unreceptive for motives that may well contain as much party loyalty as shrewd personal circumspection. Should the Dawes attitude become receptive now, the rift in Republicanism would gape indeed, for subtlety breeds suspicion. Vice President Dawes has exhibited such subtlety in the past that his inheritance of the Lowden support, after all that has been said and denied this year, would be viewed as downright discreditable in both...