Word: gawp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week a country doctor saw a strange thing in the sky. It looked like two clusters of white grapes, floating along with the wind, with something resembling a bathtub, a coffin or a sweatbox dangling below. The doctor was on a confinement case so he did not stop to gawp...
...water. But last week another force threatened to wipe out permanently much of the itinerant artists' handiwork and a livelihood which, although sand sculpturing has remained the piece de resistance and principal attraction, has lately come from the more lucrative practice of sketching board-walkers who pause to gawp at the modeling. Last week's threat came from the City Hall where Mayor Charles D. White, mindful that ice-cream and newspaper vendors are forbidden beach concessions, broadly hinted that beach artists are unlawful trespassers, have "no more right to do business on the beach than anyone else...
...Austria, Nazis killed Chancellor Dollfuss. In Helena, people crowded around the newspaper offices to gawp at bulletins...
This spring there was a novelty to be seen at a north London amusement park. It was no great success, but cockneys with a sixpenny bit could get into a tent and gawp at a gaunt, hollow-eyed woman with stringy dark hair sitting in a barrel. She was billed as "The Fasting Woman." Last week the bony body of the Fasting Woman lay behind a screen in the charity ward of a London hospital. A card was clipped over her bed: "NORINE LATTIMORE. . . . Born: Doughty St., London 1894. . . . Cause of death: cancer. . . ." Thus ended the career of Dolores...
Trying not to gawp, a well mannered crowd at the British Industries Fair in London last week followed a distinguished party of visitors at a discreet distance. Hat in hand, bulky Lord Derby led the way. Behind him came the Duchess of York. A fashion show was in progress. Well knowing Queen Mary's aversion to bare legs on tennis courts, one manikin in flannel shorts and grasping a racket trembled and turned very red. The Duchess of York saved the day. "I think they are very practical," said she to Lord Derby...