Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appearance he is short, well-built, with a square jaw, a high forehead below a shock of grey hair. In his eyes is a droopy woebegone expression. His smile is wry, tired. He dresses in dark unfashionable clothes. He is an easy, clear, impressive, frequent speaker, handling himself well in debate. Without oratorical tricks, his attack is sometimes brutal, sometimes adroitly sarcastic. He rather prides himself on his burlesque humor...
...branch office in the old Hotel Willard, Washington, D. C., engaged the first private wire from the Capitol to Manhattan. On July 2, 1881, this wire was used to flash word of President James A. Garfield's assassination, giving Prince & Whitely clients an advantageous time margin in the market shock which followed. At that time the firm was three years old. Since then it has survived many a severe depression including at least six actual stockmarket panics. Last week it failed. Almost coincidentally a "New Economic Theory" seemed to sweep the emotions of volatile stock-traders. Though few Wall streeters...
...while the failure was a shock, it was not entirely unexpected. The actual news merely substantiated one of many persistent rumors which flooded W:all Street. Where originated all these wild tales, no man could tell. But no man could stop them. Cool brokers fought to quell them, only to catch the disease themselves. Denial seemed to lend authority. Some firms sent memorandums to all employes, warning them that to discuss another firm's financial position, even among themselves, was a breach that could not be tolerated. But as stocks kept falling, the stories flew faster. Weakness in certain issues...
...President's thesis: "We have had a severe shock. . . . This depression is worldwide. . . . We can make a very large degree of recovery independently of what may happen elsewhere. . . . We shall need mainly to depend upon our own strong arm for recovery as other nations are in greater difficulty than we are. . . .* We must assure a higher degree of business stability . . . any recession in American business is but a temporary halt in the prosperity of a great people...
...court-martialled, to be a martyr-example. Finally Robert Graves (whom Sassoon calls David Cromlech) got Sassoon to give in by telling him he would never be court-martialled but would be shut up in a lunatic asylum for the duration. It was announced Sassoon had shell shock; he was ordered to a hospital. Graves, his appointed escort, missed the train...