Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poet tired of her. In 1900 he deserted, soon to publish a novel (Fire] revealing to the world their secrets in intimate detail. It later came to light that through it all he had been playing simply for literary material. The shock nearly brought about Duse's death. For two decades they were estranged...
...Jongg is used to settle many disputes and problems. More than one man has, by being careless with an East Wind, found himself sitting in solemn silence in the dull, dark dock of a pestilential prison with a lifelong lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock of a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block...
...course of true love was not to run smooth by any means. In the big, wicked city, Myra interviewed her father's villainous lawyer, Scott Brantly. "Can you stand a shock- or several severe ones? Your father and your aunt are at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean," he announced. "Widows and orphans are execrating your father's name all over the land- he has made them lose their all." Pretty hard to take, all that, but not a patch on what was to follow. The wicked Brantly grew amorous. "His lips . . . resembled squirming purple worms...
...feet in height, of a heavy, compact build, with enormously broad shoulders. His face is full and oval, his jaw " one of the squarest and most determined in the United States," with a friendly, boyish and disarming smile. His forehead is high and broad. He has a great shock of brown hair reminiscent of Bryan in his youth. He is described as " a cross between William Jennings Bryan and James J. Jeffries...
...canteen worker. After the armistice she meets in a convalescent hospital her old lover who is now married to her best friend, and she feels it her duty to care for him and nurse him back to health. Meanwhile her father has gone bankrupt and has died from the shock, but Abigail, friendless and in financial straits, still has strength to refuse the wounded man's earnest proposal, though she loves him, and to make her way "into the black night--alone...