Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Natalie, his wife, is perfectly satisfactory. As the story opens Matthias meets his friend Garth, an embittered failure; they talk a little too frankly, and Garth goes down into the woods and kills himself. His death is a shock to Matthias, to his friend Timberlake, to Natalie; Garth's memory haunts them. Moved by a common impulse, Natalie and Timberlake meet at the place where Garth died - a great rock that looks like an Egyptian tomb, with a hole in it that looks like a door. They confess they love each other, and Matthias sees them. When Matthias accuses...
...original shock was the gloomy contrast of his now flaccid purse with the sleek one he formerly possessed prior to paying his first term bill. A bill which included the outrageous addition of rent for the Greek Common Room in Adams House of which he has been the sole occupant during the current season. However the latest and by far the most serious situation, as it is entirely a matter of the Vagabond's personal cosmology, centers in and about the anti-macassar atmosphere of Grays 18, home of history and literature. The collegiate play-boy has at last...
Until recently Boston's shock troops were under two commands: the potent Watch & Ward Society, and the Licensing Division of the City of Boston. The Watch & Ward Society was originally an . . organization headed by clergymen who had the co-operation of booksellers in the suppression of erotica. It reached its greatest effectiveness under the leadership of indomitable Rev. Jason Franklin Chase. Reformer Chase died in 1926. The W. & W. received a serious blow when Bishop William Lawrence and several of its directors resigned as a result of the public exposure of the way the society's agents provocateurs...
...years ago the Illustrated London News printed a photograph from the U. S. cinema What Price Glory? It showed a disheveled, drunken Captain Flagg scuffling with Sergeant Quirt over an estaminet table. Below was a pithy caption: "Not British Discipline." Since then British Discipline has suffered many a rude shock. There was the disgraceful affair off Malta in 1928 when Rear Admiral Bernard St. George Collard was compulsorily retired for shameful conduct, such as insulting Bandmaster Percy Barnacle (TIME, March 6, 1928 et seq.). Last January the crew of the submarine tender Lucia mutinied on a rumor that their Christmas...
...love with her. She persuaded him to start a new sect, to found a religious community in the country with herself as head priestess. When her husband Clarabut's death was reported in the newspaper Susan's faith was once more made firm. It was a shock when just before her wedding to Pell she discovered Clarabut was alive after all. But Susan decided not to let her Career founder on such a little rock, went ahead with...