Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three hours later, Poet-Ambassador Claudel delivered the French reply at the State Department, and went scuttling out muttering: "I have nothing to say, nothing to say, nothing to say." The U. S. Ambassador in Paris had telephoned to prepare Secretary Stimson for the shock. But after he had scanned the English text, he grew alarmed, almost ran to the White House to confer with the President. They hastily summoned Ogden L. Mills, the financial brains of the Treasury, and for three and a half hours these three gentlemen solemnly pondered France's reply. Eugene Meyer Jr., astute, rich...
...unhappy blamed their condition on early education and religious sexual taboos, on relatives-in-law, money, children (but most declared they wanted more), and on housekeeping. Some had had "a shock in childhood related to the sex side of life." But most of all, they complained of unsatisfactory marital sex-life, often due to faulty courtship of husbands. Said Dr. Dickinson: "Teaching men and women the medical art of love is one of the most important steps toward preventive medicine and better social adjustments...
...news was a shock to Californians, for Mr. Talbot was the Pacific Coast's big example of a boom-made man. Two decades ago he was clerking for Western Pipe and Steel Co., later was its president. He made smart deals, such as securing an option on Japanese steel under embargo during the War, selling to the Government when steel became scarce and the embargo was lifted. His drive and Mr. Fuller's flashy marketing and advertising ideas kept Richfield running its rapid expansion course. He was quiet in business, rewarded justly and reprimanded mercilessly...
...expressions of indignation. Students at the Bologna Conservatory of Music shouted Evviva Toscanini! and were at once clapped into jail. In Berlin, Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra cried: "The Fascists will kill that man yet. He is so sensitive that he will never be able to stand the shock!" Sergei Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony cancelled a contract to conduct a June festival at La Scala in Milan, called the incident ''an insult not only to him but to artists generally!" Hastening from Zurich to Milan. Ossip Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit Symphony, who had also cancelled...
...virginity, strives to make it appear that she is just a curious, impetuous, innocent little soul who needs freedom, not the repression of her dour aunt's household. For two acts the virgin is enamored of a wayward novelist. Her fiance had hoped that the novelist would shock and all but seduce the little girl, scare her into his secure arms. There are a few hitches to the scheme, but the plan ultimately works. Mr. Harris' unwholesome moral seems to be that it really made no difference with whom his heroine mated, so long as she was bedded...