Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week an Italian cabinetmaker named Rafael Bendandi, whose avocation is seismology, announced that the morrow would bring a violent earthquake to the Euro-Asiatic border, that America would feel repercussions. Next day U. S. seismographs recorded a great shock somewhere in Asia. California quivered with minor shocks...
Georgie's last adolescent shock was when her father died and she found among his papers contraceptive devices that were Greek to her, pornographic postcards that were not. When Geoffrey wrote her a brotherly letter of farewell Georgie's big nose got redder; she settled down hopelessly to be a village old maid...
When Vines & Gledhill and Perry & Hughes were almost beaten in the second round, observers imagined that the shock would startle them into playing their best tennis, anticipated a brilliant international final. The shock had a different effect. In the quarterfinals. Vines & Gledhill lost to Clifford Sutter of New Orleans and Bruce Barnes of Austin, Tex., in a three-hour match, 4-6, 10-8, 10-12, 8-6, 6-3; John Van Ryn of East Orange, N. J. and Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex. beat Perry & Hughes 4-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. Rain delayed...
...nose first. When Lieut. Brinton's fellow officers reached the ship in a speedboat, it had risen again, upside down, with wings and tail torn off. The wreckage was towed ashore and the dead body of Lieut. Brinton removed from the tail of the fuselage, where the 'shock had wedged it. He was the eighth Schneider Cup pilot to be killed in Schneider Cup trials and elsewhere...
Lindberghs. The legend of Lindbergh infallibility has withstood minor shocks but never a shock like the one it endured last week. After crossing the Bering Sea without mishap and effecting a comparatively happy landing at Petropavlovsk, near the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Lindbergh troubles began. They continued for four days while headlines describing the oriental odyssey in occidental newspapers grew wide with astonishment...