Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hildy Johnson than Pat O'Brien did in the motion picture. While some of the other players were not up to the standard set by the cinema, the whole impression was one of sustained action with the starkly worded dialogue landing in the audience's lap with the jolt of a steam ram. Which recalls the fact that "The Front Page" was not allowed to show in Boston under the regime of Censor Casey. Probably even now the Playhouse is the only place where it could run uncut and unmolested. I have an idea that, in the opinion...
...already developed intramural athletic schedule of events. If we have been taught to judge physical training in American institutions of higher education upon the basis of packed stadiums and over-paid coaches, then we cannot resent the fact that the most harrowing economic depression in history has served to jolt us loose from this superficial concept...
Last week Vice President-elect Garner gave Washington a jolt when he announced that he had no intention of fulfilling the social obligations of his job. He began by refusing 20 invitations for Thanksgiving dinner. The only time he would leave his hotel, he said, would be for a White House banquet where his presence was required. The next Vice President explained: "If I should go to one I would have to go to all. Mrs. Garner and I have made it a fast rule not to accept any social invitations. We prefer carrying on the practice of 'early...
...quarrymen the blast would churn up 1,125,000 tons of limestone, sufficient to supply the blast furnaces of Inland Steel Co. (which controls the stone company) one year. For seismologists the blast would show how much of an effect a 220-ton jolt had on the 6.6 x 1021-ton earth. The knowledge would give them something precise by which to measure the forces underlying all earthquakes...
Prime facts to jolt the complacency of citizens who still believe that the Great American Bathroom is a national institution...