Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were always willing to see reporters. On the crucial morning of the conference Brer Briand posed amiably for reporters even though he had just gashed his cheek open while shaving. Nerves of the U. S. delegates were frazzled. For two days wires sputtered with details of a ruckus between shock-headed Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson and his assistant in Washington, William R. Castle...
...second consecutive year shock-haired Pilot Harry L. Russell flew a trimotored Ford into Ford airport near Detroit last week to win the Edsel Bryant Ford Trophy for reliability in the National Air Tour (TIME, July 20). His easy victory over a field of 14 gave the Ford company its second leg of the current trophy (three consecutive victories gives permanent possession). Only once in the 6,590-mi. tour was Pilot Russell pressed for leading position, and then it was by Pilot James H. Smart flying another Ford, which finished second. Smart nearly caught up with Russell when...
Thus, with the dignity of a court circular, did the official communiqué of the Bayreuth Festival last June announce the season's beginning. Rehearsals began. Was the Maestro still suffering from shock at being manhandled by Fascists in Bologna (TIME, June 22)? It seemed not. Reported the Leipzig Neueste Nachrichten: "A gray mist surrounds the 'beloved hill in Bayreuth' as the orchestral instrumentalists make their pilgrimage to this season's rehearsals . . . [Toscanini's] green auto is already standing there, and Emilio, his huge chauffeur, is playing with the diminutive fox terrier. . . . The Maestro raises...
...develop a new source of power. When I say a new source, I mean that I have turned for power to a source which no previous scientist has turned, to the best of my knowledge. The conception, the idea when it first burst upon me was a tremendous shock...
Memphis watched, wondered if that "perfect expression" would arrive as the Dean believes, when "the complainant has entirely recovered from the shock of her illness...