Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Aghast, the Bird of Freedom shrieks, "And shall Columbia miss the peaks, And fall from grace through wearing breeks...
Last week wrathful Teller Beckett, like a man beside himself, laid hold of the massy golden emblem, raised it to his shoulder and attempted to scurry out of the House! Up at once, aghast and furious, leaped Admiral Sir Colin Keppel, the Sergeant-at-Arms, to dash from his pew in pursuit. But Sir Colin's ceremonial sword caught in the pew, delaying him, and it was a spry messenger who overtook Beckett, took the Mace from him, handed it to Sir Colin when he arrived. Sir Corin then, with measured tread and awesome frown, marched back with Cromwell...
Preliminary "leaks" from the investigators in Warsaw and Copenhagen last week may be thus summarized: Local officials were aghast at the idea that a workman & family should occupy four rooms, surprised at the notion that they should want a bath. Local workmen appeared to be content with two rooms per family, accustomed to dropping in at the municipal baths when dirty. In a terminology more European than American the conclusion seemed to be that an office worker or petit bourgeois is about the lowest class of wage earner who might (possibly) or should (perhaps) have a bathroom in his home...
...citizens would be aghast if President Hoover, good Quaker, worker for world peace, should suddenly declare: "The human race develops by war and succeeds in war in proportion to its use of metal. . . . Races perish in peace. . . . Culture is increased by invention of new weapons . . . pacifists err in assuming that peace is desirable. . . . We Americans are living in unpaid luxury and must pay in full in blood...
...against a wall, but it is also the symbol of Statesman Gandhi's political program of "non-cooperation." The man is in fact a triple personality: Saint, Anti-Machinist, Statesman. He insists upon mixing up Religion, Economics and Politics into something before which the Anglo-Saxon stands puzzled and aghast, unwilling and unable to give it an English name. If Englishmen were Germans they would call what Mr. Gandhi is driving at "recpolism" (R?eligion, EC?onomics, Pol?itics...