Word: astonished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange phenomenon of marines in trenches speaking the language of the drawing room will astonish Boston Monday evening when "What Price Glory?", stripped of every line of profanity, opens in the Wilbur Theatre. The purification of this most famous of war plays is the work of Mayor Curley, whose previous adventures in guarding Boston ears from the perils of birth control, radicalism, and Dramatic Club productions have already made him known to fame...
...would scarcely be physically possible to accomplish this feat. I once dictated ten thousand words of a story in a week-end and have never been the same since. However, Ben Hecht's versatility and his energy are astounding! That's fortunate, for his life is lived to astonish. He must have an audience, no matter how contemptible...
...facial equipment. What does one call such a beard when it rests on the under reaches of the lower lip? At any rate, the dramatic critic of The New York Herald, after illness, a trip abroad and a sojourn in Vermont, has acquired a new beard with which to astonish early first night audiences in New York City...
...method of discovery, apparently, that stirs this scientist's sense of irony. With all its advancement, surgery has had to turn for this lesson to the pariahs of the profession, witch-doctors, fakirs, and miracle-workers of semi-civilized races. The exhibitions of professional tricksters, who astonish their audiences by self-inflicted torture, are often made possible and painless by this simple process of deep breathing. A French doctor, observing some of these semi-savage rites in Africa, drew his own conclusion, and the test of actual experiment was a satisfactory proof...
Another suggestion I should like to make concerns the reason why laboring men show such adaptability to new methods of striking; of course, this is but a suggestion. The greatest reason is perhaps, the number of bright lads in the country who, as wee tots of seventeen, astonish their parents by anticipating English A; then breeze through college, dashing off keen editorials in which they use such big words as "Syndicalism", "exploitation", and "Johannesburg"; and finally fare forth in the world to enlighten the public through the editorial columns of your "New York Timeses", your "Chicago Tribunes", and your "Boston...