Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Waiting on his San Simeon, Calif, doorstep last month, William Randolph Hearst had a shock. Word was brought him that a few miles away, Britain's top-notch socialites, Lord & Lady Plunket, arriving as guests in one of his newspapers' airplanes, had crashed and burned to death. Lady Plunket, 38, was the only child of Actress Fannie Ward who, at 66, still weighs 100 pounds, still wears size twelve clothes, still advocates her "cult of youth." and is known in England as a U. S.-born "perennial flapper...
...propellers driven by eight motors developing 18,400 h. p.; cruising speed a flat 250 m.p.h.; a wing 250 ft. long and triple fuselage accommodating 120 passengers, crew of 16, a dining room for 50, observation deck, cocktail bar, promenade, 70 toilets and a lifeboat. Pontoons serve also as shock absorbers, retract in flight into the hulls of the two main fuselages. The whole ship in stainless steel, by collaboration with Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co.. costs an unheard...
...drama, Jezebel is slender stuff. One red dance frock in a ballroom full of white ones could not ordinarily be much of a shock to a cinemaudience. But by force of personal intensity and able acting Actress Davis gives her emotional crises a convincing importance. In fact she establishes her character so convincingly that few cinemaudiences will be persuaded that Julie's sacrificial fade-out is not just another foxy trick to get her man, dead or alive...
...shock, the terrific impact of this realization upon mystic, intuitive Dictator Hitler produced one of those instantaneous and, as Nazis say, "inspired" decisions which the Führer now & then makes: MOBILIZATION! Once aroused, potent Herr Hitler, with Teutonic ruthlessness, simply smashed brave, resourceful but basically impotent Dr. Schuschnigg. Crunch!-the heavy-handed German Chancellor dispatched from Berlin Schuschnigg's Minister Without Portfolio Edmund Glaise-Horstenau to demand within five hours a decree by the Austrian Government "indefinitely postponing" the plebiscite. This Chancellor Schuschnigg and Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas, who had just come from the pleasanter business of entertaining...
John Billy was a bad Indian. He drank, drabbed, brawled in a way to shock his fellow Seminoles, who spend their lives manufacturing souvenirs, wrestling 'gators for Miami's winter visitors, drowsing through humid summers in the Everglades. Recently Seminole heads shook ominously. Word went out that John Billy had assaulted the daughter of John Osceola, great-grandson of a great Seminole warrior, himself the venerable chief of Pirates' Cove Village on the Miami River. Last week the heads of Miami authorities were shaking, too, as they tried to puzzle out what had happened to John Billy...