Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit, where the Sit-Down epidemic began, remained its seething centre, and Detroiters last week were getting an idea of what a revolution feels like. Timid housewives laid in siege supplies of food from neighborhood stores, being afraid to venture downtown. Guests at the big Statler Hotel got the shock of their lives when cooks, waitresses, bellboys, chambermaids and elevator operators, conventionally as dumb and docile as the hotel furniture, impertinently sprawled down in lobbies and lounges, left them littered with cigaret butts and wastepaper, refused to serve food, carry bags, make beds, man elevators. Smelling trouble, managers...
Physicians stuck pins into Helen Love and slapped her face without getting response. A practical prosecutor suggested dousing her with cold water, but the doctors forbade that on the ground that the shock might kill her. Helen Love's brother helpfully recalled that soft, classical music had once brought her out of a similar fit. But none was available in the Los Angeles jail. Then a dapper psychiatrist named Dr. Samuel Morris Marcus took a hand. He rubbed the woman's eyelids, tickled her behind the ears. That caused her to twitch, to murmur: "Don't, Harry...
...earthquake broke windows, toppled chimneys. So many startled residents telephoned newspapers and police stations that the exchanges were jammed and calls were blocked as long as 15 minutes. Inspectors scurried out on the new Bay bridges to make sure nothing had been jarred loose. Seismologists estimated that the shock was about half as strong as the catastrophic quake of 1906. Dr. Albert Newlin of Santa Clara University said that slippage had occurred along the Hayward Fault, which runs nearly 50 mi. southward from...
...obvious fact, pointed out by Dean Gauss, that some of the most promising young intellects are kept out of college because of financial means, is being grappled with by Harvard's bold and promising venture, the Conant Scholarships. President Hutchins of Chicago makes his contribution in the proposed "shock-absorber" institution of the four-year senior high school-junior college combination, after which those really fitted for higher education would be permitted to acquire it. Starting with the small colleges of the East, a movement is now on to stiffen the requirements for admission. Throughout the West there...
...readers, unless they are the kind who must have sugar on their salad. Idealists should think twice about reading The Antigua Stamp; realists will quite possibly read it twice. For readers who are accustomed to find their way quickly to the side of the angels, it may be a shock to discover that in this book there is no obviously angelic side...