Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Chief Justice. His father is a vice president of New York Central R. R. He proceeded to St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., where he quickly developed a dashing stellar proficiency in hockey, a major St. Paul's sport. Here first his squinty smile, his shock of dark hair and high-pitched Taftian chuckle began to add up to that most imponderable of qualities, "Popularity...
Complacent Harvard hockey supporters were given a severe shock Saturday when an overconfident, favored, but unaggressive Crimson sextet went down to humiliating defeat before a Yale team that fought all the way, outplaying and outmanouvering its ancient rival to a final score...
There is much to be said for the lawyer who faces the brunt of trained claim agents and railroad lawyers. I personally know of many cases where claim departments isolate badly injured men, get statements from them while in bad physical and mental condition from shock, and try every available trick to avoid liability. It takes a specialist to outfight these men, backed by a railroad bankroll. So cleanly has Michel fought that numerous railroad and corporation lawyers are among his written indorsers...
...gazing out across the wide and lovely and silent desert. Undulating, pastel tinted. A white handkerchief knotted at each of the four corners rested upon the famous shock of curly grey hair...
...obscure, so ignominiously in the shadow of Dictator Benito Mussolini, is bantamweight King Vittorio Emanuele III that news last week that he had actually done something important came to most Italians as a pleasant shock...