Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lady Diana Duff-Cooper, onetime Miracle nun, driving from Bognor to Lon- don, smashed into another car, was taken to a hospital suffering cut knees, shock...
...balance the budget for the year at £781,909,000?nearly £40,000,000 more than the balancing figure last year. "I will now."said Mr. Snowden pouring himself half a tumblerful of water,? "I will now give the House a moment to recover from the shock of those figures,"and amid laughter the Chancellor downed two swallows...
Beard In Hoboken, long-bearded Kupper Bier, 109, died of pneumonia plus the shock of burns sustained in a beard-fire which sprang up when he lit a cigar stub...
...Empress of Abyssinia, impotent little Zauditu, died soon after she received news of her consort's death. The real ruler of Abyssinia, whose puppet poor Zauditu was, is the Negus or "King" Taffari. He said that Zauditu died of "shock...
Died. Empress Zauditu (Judith) of Abyssinia, 54, "direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba"; at Addis Ababa, Abyssinia; of "shock" on hearing that her husband, Ras Gugas Wali, had been killed in battle near Zebit...