Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great concentration of wealth in the hands of a small per cent of the population." That was the big news: the fact that there is actually alive a child of the late Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. who opposes what he called the Money Trust! That was the electric, potent shock which set editors editing, rotos rotating...
...cannot refrain from writing to you to express my sympathy and real feeling of personal loss in the death of Mr. Briton Hadden. I had not heard of it until I received my copy of TIME today and the news came as a great shock...
...George Washington's estate), near Accotink, Va. In the 1916 Minnesota primary. Senator Clapp was defeated, as was the late U. S. Representative Charles A. Lindbergh. The victor was Frank Billings Kellogg. In 1927 Mr. Clapp rescued his small granddaughter from drowning in the Potomac, suffered a lasting shock...
...surgeon, about to make a transfusion, scientifically matches a donor's blood to his patient's to such purpose that no shock results. In like manner Congress has ordained that Immigration shall be scientifically matched to the U. S. racial bloodstream...
...British Industries. The guests were met?or thought they were?merely to toss off a few champagne toasts to the British Industries Fair, which would open next day in London. But no sooner had Edward of Wales risen and begun to speak, than the Tycoons realized with an unpleasant shock that they were in for one of the most thoroughgoing rebukes ever administered to rich old men by a young heir apparent...