Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emotional liberalism, rising from the desire to shock people, is propagated by Mr. Barnes, a well-known writer on controversial social topics. This is not real liberalism, I believe, but a reaction from the established routine of things. People in this class I would classify as conventionally unconventional...
...that was offered to refine the pleasure of motoring. There were windproof matches, cigaret lighters, electric clocks, radio outlets, pneumatic foot rests, fancy metal tire covers, heated windshield wipers, sunvisors. There was an ejector spring that opens the door at a touch on the handle. More costly was a shock absorber system operated from the dash which lets the driver adjust his car to the roughness of the road (called "ride control," featured on Buick, Graham-Paige, Oldsmobile). There was a starting system operated by a button on the dash (featured by Hudson and Rockne). There were custom-made tires...
...night hawker of crude pornography, sexy Artist Arno accosts his public in broad daylight, through the pages of the New Yorker. Many an old-fashioned person would not understand Arno's allusions but would consider them "feelthy" if he did. One prominent English bookseller was so shocked by the English edition of Peter Arno drawings (Peter Arno's Parade) that he refused to sell the book. But Peter Arno's Circus is not nearly so crude as The Stag at Eve (TIME, Dec. 21), should shock no adult...
...Deplored a too candid allusion by First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monsell, to the naval mutiny last fall (TIME, Sept. 28). "I know what a shock this incident was to the whole country," burbled Sir Bolton, "but I beg the House of Commons and the country to understand it was a most profound shock to the Royal Navy. The Navy realizes today that we no longer occupy the very high position in the hearts of our British public that for past centuries...
...flask with nitrogen gas, sealed it. Around the stem he wrapped a wire, touched the wire to a 25,000-volt high-frequency generator. There was a flash, then the bulb began to glow with a bright yellow light. It continued to glow for 35 minutes after the shock had been administered. Four months later, Professor Knipp repeated the procedure. For no reason that he could see the bulb remained bright for no minutes. The third time it glowed 187 minutes, fourth time 165 minutes...