Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Nov. 9, there appears a letter from O. Hichens Glimstead. Spectators at future St. Mary's games will miss his light blue golf hose. His death last Friday, so soon after breaking into print, was a great shock to the fans on the coast...
...sails drawing under a half gale from the north in Chesapeake Bay, I was under a lee shore. The sun was sinking. To my surprise the glare on the water became unbearable to my sight. (I was steering a westerly course.) I looked up at the mainsail. What a shock! It had turned from white to black. An optical illusion, of course. The sky, too, had turned black. Another glance at the sinking sun, and while I was looking, the bright orange orb turned to green. Then no matter where or how long I looked in other directions, whether...
...began to grow dark one of the airplanes spotted Weirman, clothed in the white uniform of a prison cook. The police surrounded the field, closed in. Policeman Joseph Campbell Jr. saw a foot sticking out of a shock of corn, ordered its owner out. Convict McGrath came out shooting and Policeman Campbell fell fatally wounded. An instant later his companions had avenged him and McGrath lay dying. Meanwhile, other policemen searched for Weirman. Finally they came upon him lying still on the ground. Desperado Weirman, seeing he could not escape, had put the muzzle of his riot...
...earnings reports did not shock the U. S. stockholder last week. With business at such a low ebb there were indeed cases where small earnings instead of deficits made good news. Reports issued up to last week for the most part showed losses from last year. The public utilities came the closest to maintaining their 1930 earning power, while the rails continued to show an alarming drop in gross and net, in many cases falling short of covering fixed charges. Most industrials showed big declines but companies which have made good showings this year include...
...Anglophile roads in the Monitor with something of a shock that time honored English public-schools are vying with each other in adopting vocational curricula to meet "the specific need of modern democracy for leaders with broad sympathies and a strong sense of actuality." Accordingly, a bulletin-board at Eton, which American private-school men so love to deify, was recently "covered with arrangements for a Boy Scout Camp and for subsequent attendance at a jamboree, because a Scout is a brother to every other Scout, no matter of what social class." Harrow has done its bit by offering...