Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...founded in 1748. But in Philadelphia, as in Boston, finance and society tend to merge in a vast accumulation of personal trust funds. There the Stock Exchange and the Racquet Club stand almost cheek by jowl. Last week, to Philadelphians in their clubs and counting rooms came a profound shock. A dozen of the city's best people and biggest money men were indicted for the grossest kind of fraud...
...bank of the Manzanares River which flows through Madrid's western and southwestern sections. Day after day the besiegers tried in vain to thrust across three of the river's bridges and battle their way into the city. Under a blanket of acrid smoke, White shock troops violently attacked Los Franceses Bridge, failed to enter Madrid only because the Red militia blew up the bridge and captured three White tanks that had wormed their way across the river into the Radical lines. The Red militia outnumbered the White Army last week and had received many additional airplanes...
...although he wrote to her every day. What happened to the letters is not explained. Poe's foster father, who comports himself like Simon Legree with a Scotch burr, sends him away. He goes to live with Mrs. Clemm and her 13-year-old daughter Virginia, whom any shock is likely to kill because her arteries are "as thin as tissue paper." When Poe is offered a magazine job in Richmond, Virginia faints. Poe finds her so beautiful while she is unconscious that he decides to marry...
...marry them off. Flora soon weds a young officer in the Navy. Pam's young man turns out to be a cad; he leaves her on the verge of becoming a husbandless mother. When an accident kills off Flora's ensign, Flora, also pregnant, dies of the shock. Painful but convenient, the circumstances of her death - in Italy where both sisters are holidaying - make things much easier for Pam. She comes back to London with her baby, explains that it is Flora...
Adventure in Manhattan (Columbia). Endowed with psychic intuition enabling him to predict crimes before they occur, an eccentric young reporter (Joel Mc-Crea) uses this gift to foil an international thief (Reginald Owen), shock his editor, captivate a young actress (Jean Arthur...