Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last fortnight in the office of President Frank Porter Graham of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A freshman had told an upperclassman and the upperclassman had told them and they were there to tell President Graham that the University's honor system had been widely, shockingly violated. Small, affable President Graham heard their story of organized cheating on examinations. Then to Rufus Adolphus ("Jack") Pool, president of the student body, and to the other solemn student leaders, he gave full authority to discover and punish the offenders. In the next ten days the students of North...
...result of some queer scandal. Attracted by Jim's robust enjoyment of nature, weary of his own brooding conscience, Oliver still cannot free his mind of questions of right and wrong, is offended when Jim tells him candidly of his father's weakness. Oliver's first shock comes when he learns that his father is a narcotic addict. Then he discovers that during his college days, at a fraternity initiation, his father had accidentally killed a man. To complete his disillusionment, he realizes that Jim, for all his friendliness and gayety, may eventually murder his father...
These modern bucaneers, known as Legionaires and veterans, have only had their taste whetted by this recent legislation. Already other and more exhorbitant plans are being formulated. This outright looting of the nation has shaken many people's faith in democracy. Before the bonuseers begin another raid and shock the public conscience once again, before they start beating their tom-toms again, they would do well to reflect that it is only one step from a loss of faith in a lavish, undisciplined and unprincipled democracy to a loss of democracy itself...
...Sandringham. His Majesty's health permitted him to shoot pheasants, attend church, ride his pony and be most gracious in replying to villagers' greetings. He overtaxed his strength inspecting his racing stables fortnight ago and a few days later caught the cold which this week, to the shock of the whole world, proved fatal. Knowing his constitution to have been weakened and his heart severely strained by his illness eight years ago, the King exerted himself before winter and its dangers should come on to have Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin seek and safely win an election which entrenched...
...often done in the past 27 years. Alfred Stieglitz, photographer and art dealer, last week gave over his bleak, hospital-like Manhattan gallery to the paintings of his best friend. A wrinkled, shock-headed little man of 65, John Marin looks like a disheveled version of the late Sir Henry Irving. Because a new book on Artist Marin has just been published,* because critics like Henry McBride, Lewis Mumford and Julius Meier-Graefe have put themselves on record as considering John Marin the greatest water-colorist in the U. S., it was an important exhibit...