Word: gawked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...houseparty to bring the nervous pair together, this well-laid plan went sadly agley. Helen was mightily pleased with Franzi, but Franzi had no eyes for anyone but Helen's younger sister, 15-year-old Sisi. Sisi was a tomboy, but so pretty she made Helen appear a gawk. Franzi fell in love with her at sight, and for keeps. The scheming mothers put the best face on the matter they could, but Sophie could never forgive -her daughter-in-law-elect. To Son Franz Joseph she said: "Sisi is very nice, although the poor child doesn...
...Protestant Nebraskans who crowded into Omaha to gawk and wonder, the Congress seemed just what it was, a great convention staged with more splendor than Protestants are wont to marshal. The Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, apostolic delegate at Washington, opened the religious program with a pontifical high mass at St. Cecilia's Cathedral. Archbishop Francis J. L. Beckman of Dubuque preached an emotional sermon. Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland assembled the Priests' Eucharistic League and admonished the men to greater activities in the propaganda of Catholicism. George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago and U. S. Circuit Judge Martin Thomas Manton...