Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only man likely to restore the lost confidence of the people." When the laughter caused by this remark had died down, members of the Dail promptly defeated Absentee de Valera, 93 to 54, as promptly defeated another candidate, Thomas J. O'Connell, Laborite. Then they put shock-headed "Willie" Cosgrave back into power with a vote...
...what a shock was ours today...
...brief but unusual shock passed through the whole War Department last week. No less a person than the Chief of Staff, General Charles Pelot Summerall, had been insulted. Junior officers about the Department knew the General had gone to the Army's proving grounds at Aberdeen, Md., had returned to Washington in a state df high indignation. With true esprit de corps they tried to hush up the whole affair...
...Certainly I'd like tea!" cried Mrs. George Reed, and amid general laughter she slapped her hostess on the back, slapped with such gusto that Mrs. Seaton-Smith suffered shock, indignity, sued...
...respect him, and am his friend, because he is one of the very few Americans I know who is entirely free of cheapness, toadyism and hypocrisy. . . . He is the best fighter I have ever met. And he is the fairest, the cleanest, and the most relentless." Delighting to shock, Iconoclast Mencken was once shocked himself: by Author James Joyce's Ulysses (TIME, Feb. 17). Some of his other books: Ventures into Verse, Damn-a Book of Calumny, Prejudices (six series), The American Language, Notes on Democracy...