Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horse heights no longer; free-wheeling and the radio have pried men's feet from off the old wood-stove. Men go their several ways. The covers of the old "Gazette" live and move on the screen; and the tabloids, shock for shock, outdistance and undersell their progenitor. Upstart terriers have worried the old bloodhound to his death...
...young cartoonist, flouted by the parents of the girl he wished to marry, who made himself rich by putting them in a comic strip. Earthy, rude nouveaux riches, Jiggs & Maggie became famed in song, story, burlesque. Probably on this account is the story apocryphal. No vulgarian (red vest, shock of red hair, silk hat) could be as preposterous as Jiggs; no scowling, tight-lipped lady as savage as Maggie. Nevertheless, U. S. masses have for many years followed their somewhat stylized activities, which consist chiefly in family strife and almost invariably end with Maggie pelting Jiggs with crockery. Throughout...
...many a proud, rich family Depression has brought a sudden shock. Last week it was the turn of the sugar-great Spreckels family to receive its Shock, but it was one which did not come as a total surprise...
...streets, goes home to pace his floor, bite his nails, throw things at his wife. Gradually this energy wears itself out. He stops shaving, becomes dirty, slovenly, sodden. He looks at the world out of dull, defeated eyes. For this con dition psychologists have a new term : un employment shock...
...news of the tragic death of Eugene Glover in a cancer research laboratory comes as a distinct shock to those of his classmates and contemporaries in college who knew him. The pity of it is that there were so few who really did know him. Glover was one of that considerable group in every class that "live at home". Most of his classmates probably knew him only as a name, for he received A's in all his courses and his name always appeared in the First Group of the Rank List. Those who did seek him out found...