Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British editors first buried the Lindbergh story briefly on inside pages. As soon as they caught the drift of U. S. opinion, they promoted it to front pages, began editorially looking down their noses at the U. S. "The shock millions of Americans received when they read the news of Lindbergh's departure," pontificated the London Daily Herald, "is comparable only to what would occur in Britain should the Prince of Wales announce he was no longer secure in his own country...
...Lawyer Tom Schall was blinded by a shock from an electric cigar lighter which paralyzed his optic nerve. Not until 1914, however, did he enter politics, a career in which blindness was to prove an asset rather than a liability. For ten years he sat in the House. Minnesota elected him to the Senate...
...Would it shock you to know that I showed the pictures to my almost 6-year-old son and he thought them as wonderful and lovely as I did? A very modern mother...
...Page 1 of the Times's Sunday Book Review section appeared a typographical botch which any country editor would be ashamed to permit in his paper-a line which showed only as a faint, undecipherable blur. The type had obviously been scraped off. Readers' puzzlement grew to shock when, on Page 14 of the same section, they found a two-column, five-inch-high, grey smudge, beneath which was the following caption...
...Fonda, a U. S. musician who thinks he can compose opera, picks up Miss Pons, performs the impossible under France's laws by marrying her during an evening of drunkenness. Under the mistaken impression that his music is better than his wife's voice, Fonda receives a shock when he is ignored at a large party celebrating Soprano Pons's triumphant début. Taking the usual course for men in his plight, he makes a scene voicing his self-pity as a failure, disappears. Miss Pons, thoroughly bored with lonely success, finds him driving a taxi...