Word: shockers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholic Rome that was a shocker. Critics goggled at Pagliacci's pyrotechnics; the newspapers, wary of violent reader reactions, carried no mention of the opening. But word-of-mouth publicity was enough to make the show a roaring success; within two days collectors had snapped up all 20 pictures on display, including the six church fires, collectively entitled "Roman Caprices...
...This shocker was based on a letter which "fell into the hands of the Spanish Chief of State" in 1943, according to Figaro. It was supposedly written by President Roosevelt to Jacob Zabronsky, president of the National Council of Young Israel, and it designated him Roosevelt's secret emissary to Stalin. It instructed Zabronsky to promise Finland and the Baltic states to Stalin, as well as a port on the Mediterranean, and commented on Red Marshal Timoshenko's "short but fruitful stay" in Washington. It ended with thanks to Zabronsky for presenting F.D.R. with a copy...
...respected artists, devoted five years to planning and painting a giant triptych entitled Crucifixion; it was well received by his Los Angeles neighbors, and last week Manhattan's choosy Museum of Modern Art had the picture on show. The work itself turned out to be something of a shocker...
Superintendent K. J. Clark of Mobile County blamed indifferent parents for the existence of high-school fraternities, which have no official sanction from the school system. His hope: that last week's shocker might lead to state legislation banning such fraternities altogether...
...three best detective stories ever written." Bentley himself put another book at the top of his list: John Buchan's hare & hounds thriller, The Thirty-Nine Steps. He said as much to Author Buchan one day, and Buchan replied: "Why don't you write a shocker yourself? It's twenty times easier than writing a detective story, like Trent's Last Case...