Word: shocked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week French newspapermen got the shock of their professional lives. Two of them were arrested for having been in cahoots with foreign propagandists. French journalists, sensitive about their profession's reputation, were spared the unpleasant task of reporting the arrests in detail because of fear of the official secrets act. But rumors of spies, Nazi agents, alarmists, panic-mongers and scandals they could print. They printed so many that papers were crammed with vague reports of the doings of "30 highly placed Paris journalists," "two Germans," an unknown investment broker, two German princesses and 150 others rumored...
Last week at Ackermann's gallery in London, Peter Markham Scott's seventh exhibition of paintings testified to the industry of one of England's least indolent young men. Broad-shouldered, shock-headed Artist Scott inherited not only his father's features but his liking for open air. At intellectual Trinity College, Cambridge, he lived unsociably with a pet snake and an owl, spent his vacations duck-hunting and sailing. For his painting he chose an open-air subject-wild fowl...
...often a low libertine, first puts his leprous arms about her, the crimson comes to her cheeks, and she shrinks from his embrace. She is soon reassured . . . The blush, God's danger signal, soon disappears, and also too often forever. The innate sense of modesty receives a shock, and one of the God-given barriers is gone. Many pure and noble young girls are, at first, all unconscious of the nature of the pleasuretey derive from the ballroom...
...husky, solemn, shock-headed kid of 6 when he first decided there was money to be made in the quantity production of flying machines. That was 47 years ago in wind-whipped Liberal, Kans., where his father, Clarence Martin, had set up one of the first hardware stores in the Sunflower State's southwest. Working from the time school was out until bedtime, Martin's son, Glenn Luther, methodically turned out biplane box kites at the rate of three a day, sold them for 25? apiece...
...were "grisly Esaus, full of dirty strength." Every forceful man in New England, he thought, had gone West. If his travels read like a drummer's timetable, his Abolition activities make lim look like a Balkan conspirator. Such behavior as his dining John Brown, "a real hero," might shock Concord, but Emerson snapped his fingers. It need not have surprised any who recalled that the American Revolution was barely a generaion old when the penniless Emerson boy used to "thrill" as he pastured the family cow "on the battlefield," and that the author of "America's intellectual declaraion...