Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago he had used the words "quarantine" and "concerted effort," which gave isolationists and passive-peace advocates a jolt. They were a jolt also to many a bespatted dignitary of the State Department. For although the State Department is split over the proper course to be pursued, none of its officials wants to give Britain or France the impression that the U. S. is prepared to take the lead in checking Japan. Therefore, Franklin Roosevelt added to his fireside chat announcing an extra session of Congress (see col. 3). a sort of postscript on peace...
...book's end Napoleon explains to depressed Marie that in spite of the ugly jolt in Spain, he must now fight the Austrians and English, but would like very much to marry her first. Marie declines. His future, she says, looks black enough without complicating it further by waving a Polish Queen in the Tsar's face. But she will be happy to continue as his mistress, will even stop talking politics...
...come, and it did, when Mr. Green would receive a jolt. A Baptist who never smoked or drank, he has lately begun to take a dry Martini or two before dinner, a definite concession to good fellowship with newshawks, few of whom are teetotalers. After resolutely refusing for 13 years to let any one take press relations out of his stiffening fingers, last August he hired a new press agent-Philip Pearl, an experienced reporter with a wide acquaintance among Washington correspondents...
...progress." Since then it has been meeting regularly in Member Glenn's offices to prepare a thoroughgoing recommendation to lay before the convention which will be held in Cincinnati in October. When the commission released its report last week, it gave many a right-thinking Episcopalian a ruder jolt than he expected. To Canon 41 the commission recommended a simple amendment: "Any person whose former marriage has been dissolved for any cause by a civil court may, after the expiration of one year from the granting of the divorce, apply to the bishop of his or her diocese...
...History 1. To the former came two-thirds of those enrolled to unsnarl their formula-ridden minds. As for the latter review it threw a beam of light across six hundred years and caused the broad outlines of the whole to fall into meaningful order. The most severe jolt handed the Committee was during the review of Government 1, when the students walked out on the lecturer...