Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chipped in by Judge Robert Worth Bingham, and he has got an amazing money's worth in return as Ambassador to the Court of St. James. The Jubilee of George & Mary, the great King-Emperor's demise, the numerous pageants of King Edward's accession, the shocker of abdication, and yet another colorful, majestic burst of accession pageantry for George VI have all thrilled the Bingham family...
...produced figures to show that General Motors, biggest Pinkerton customer, had paid at least $419,850. Pinkerton services to G. M. had ended suddenly only the previous fortnight. Most of the G. M. jobs were the routine stuff of planting agents in labor unions to betray them. But one shocker revealed a new angle of U. S. labor espionage, cast a shadow not only on Pinkerton ethics but on Pinkerton competence...
...stern B. B. C. sentence pronounced upon Shocker Rorke was suspension for five weeks, during which time he may not enter any B. B. C. broadcasting studio...
Crowded out by President Roosevelt's Supreme Court shocker (see p. 16) and the fateful automobile strike in Flint and Detroit (see below), the Great Flood of 1937 seeped off the nation's front pages last week. But for a half-million people along the lower Mississippi it was still prime news. From Cairo, Ill. to New Orleans an army of 125,000 reliefers, convicts and volunteers worked feverishly to raise and strengthen the thousand-mile, billion-dollar levee system which stood between them and disaster. The levees were still holding as the hump in the river...
Back at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week, to begin a tour which will take it to every one of the United States, was the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe. For the first time in the U. S. the Monte Carlo dancers presented the great shocker of the great Diaghilev era: L'Après-midi d'un faune, designed and danced by Vaslav Nijinsky not long before he became so addlebrained that he was interned in a Swiss sanatorium. Last week handsome David Lichine impersonated the spotted faun, gyrating insidiously, blatantly suggesting, as did his predecessor...