Word: astonishment
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...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...
...suggested that a man can loaf half a year or half a lifetime, then, after a few minutes of musical massage, jump in and accomplish feats to astonish the natives. But when the preliminary drill has been faithfully performed, such a period of relaxation before the final effort, be it examination, art or business, does marvelously heighten the powers of concentrated effort. --Boston Globe...
Take a belief in your destiny, borrow a dress suit, astonish a social gathering to which you had no invitation with your brilliancy, and your fortune is made. This is the philosophy of John Paul Bart, tailor's presser, self-made man, who in four short acts raises himself from nothing to the pinnacle of power...