Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women who have done most for James Ramsay MacDonald since the deaths of his mother and his wife were recovering in their own ways last week from the shock of his losing his seat in the House of Commons, though he retains a sinecure in the Cabinet (see above...
...family and mistresses, discussed England, the future of the U. S.. the characters of his subordinates, to his embittered aide. He expressed no grief for his lost armies, displayed a gruesome cheerfulness as he neared Paris and decided that the surprise of his return would counteract the shock of defeat. Of the 600,000 soldiers who marched into Russia, only 1,000 of the Old Guard returned to Paris in order...
...pain last week, unable to sleep nights. His whirlwind swing around the entire Dominion during the General Election (TIME, Oct. 21) which made him for the first time a continent-wide figure, also overstrained his kidney. And Mitch believed last week that he faces angina pectoris. After the first shock of amazement, Ontario did not quite believe that its Premier will in fact resign after the legislative session next spring, as he is now resolved to do. He sped south to Florida last week and friends considered that by Christmas the impulsive and emotional Mitch may find himself feeling...
Received copy of Oct. 21 TIME today, and have just read as far as p. 13 in it. Received quite a shock and am protesting against what I think is an unkind term. The article in question is the one about Mrs. Muench. Very last word. You speak of the infant as "a Pennsylvania servant girl's bastard!" And I ask you-is that nice...
Typical of the cinema method employed in Things to Come is the passage describing what happens when they leave the Earth: "Clouds of dust obscure the screen and clear to show the crowd after the shock. Some press their ears as if they were painful, others stare under their hands up into the sky. Then the crowd begins to stream back towards the city . . . in a straggling, aimless manner, and pausing ever and again to stare...