Word: shock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best example is birth control, though tomorrow it will be something else. At first the very mention of birth control was tabu. It violated the convention of secrecy shrouding all matters of sex and reproduction since time immemorial. I don't know that any one died from the shock; but emotional disturbance was common enough, and quite real. Most of us have passed beyond this stage today. In Massachusetts recently a candidate was defeated because the opposition called him a sexagenarian; but this, I take it, is exceptional. The idea of children by choice instead of chance has made...
...Inventor. Electrical genius made D. D. Knowles an enfant terrible in his early youth. From wiring doorknobs and pianos to shock imprudent visitors in his Ohio home, he turned to electric traps for the destruction of hen-ravishing hawks. Less than four years ago he was graduated by Purdue University...
Died. Most Reverend Robert Seton, 88, Titular Archbishop of Heliopolis, Egypt, senior Monsignor in the U. S., head of the ancient Scottish family, Setons of Parbroath; grandson of Elizabeth Seton, eminent Roman Catholic who founded the U. S. Sisters of Charity; as the result of a slight shock; at St. Elizabeth College (also founded by his grandmother) near Morristown...
...prominent figures are ripe young Joy, April's last duchess; mountainous Big Sue, who slapped jealous Leah dead; amiable Uncle Bill, the plantation saint; malicious Brudge and sensitive Breeze, two of April's older boys; intelligent, defiant Sherry, his strongest boy, whose skull was hard enough to shock blood out the tyrant's nose in a murderous butting match they had; mumbling Maum Hannah, midwife, with her jumbled accumulation of animal sense and primitive witchcraft. The tragic quality of racial backwardness and superstition is developed with all possible force by treating it in natural minutiae instead...
...caused his descent, in a rough sea, near the mouth of the Fatma River. Waves quickly smashed the plane. It was a hard mile swim to shore. Soon Moorish tribesmen swarmed over the wrecked plane, dug into the batteries for gold and silver, got nothing but a bad electric shock. From the aviators they took money and watches, cut the soles of their shoes for concealed gold. Later they marched the Major and his companions barefooted over the hot sands for many hours, hid them, in sacks on camels' backs while tribesmen shot at planes sent in search...