Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inside the Chamber, not outside, and it was not aimed at M. Briand's life. Hour by hour, as the day approached when the National Assembly must choose a new President of France, gruff, sleepy-eyed Br'er Briand loomed larger & larger as leading candidate. His enemies selected a shock squadron of eight orators under Deputy Henry Franklin-Bouillon to blast...
...mature, experienced religious leaders. Its report is headed by a statement by one of Socialism's ablest, most trustworthy advocates?38-year-old, athletic Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of applied Christianity at Union Theological Seminary. Calling himself a "tamed cynic," he is still known as one who aims to shock the complacent, to kinetize the nation's youth with his own high-powered enthusiasm. Son of a Missouri pastor, he was ordained in the Evangelical Church in 1915, held a Detroit pastorate until 1928. He is an editor of The World Tomorrow, a popular, dynamic orator. In his introduction...
...During the last few weeks . . I have ignored the unfounded and slanderous attacks that have been running in the gossip gazettes. . . . Every man and woman of sense and sensibility in New York this beautiful morning experienced a shock in their ordinarily clean newspaper. Thanks to the Sunday clerk of a committee of the National Republican Club, this committee, with no constructive program, no civic pride, no regard for the fair name of the city, labored and brought forth a shower of hydrogen gas,* offensive alike to decent Republicans as well as Democrats and independents. As for my private life...
...anything like that in my district. . . . Why, I never heard of such a thing! ... I can't understand why Annie said anything like that. . . . That sort of thing is entirely foreign to me. . . . No, I don't agree with her at all. ... It was a great shock to me. . .. Only one judge comes from my district and he didn't give me a present and he isn't a rotter...
Like oldtime court jesters, newspaper colyumists are privileged-nay, obliged- to play horse with the serious news of the day. But just as the jester was in danger of having his head lopped off if his boldness should outrun his wit, so must the colyumist watch carefully lest he shock the Average Reader's sensibilities. Readers of Colyumist Harry Irving Phillips (''The Sun Dial") in the New York Sun one day last week wondered whether he had gone...