Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maybe St. Paul could help them with his Romans 14:14 & 22, or his Titus 1:15. Of course I would not refer our Puritanical brethren to I Corinthians 7:36 lest they die of shock. This old world must retain a few things to laugh...
Maurice Vlaminck, modernist painter, told the three judges with a defiant air: "Mere nakedness does not shock...
...Tiens, M. Vlaminck," gravely observed the senior judge. "I will give you confidence for confidence and inform you that mere nakedness does not shock me either...
...week, fill the Northfield Hotel run by Ambert Moody (nephew). Last week's peace parade was the high point of the Northfield season. The 2,000 marchers took a peace pledge. Rev. James Myers, industrial secretary of the Federal Council of Churches, declared: "Missionaries have ever been the shock-troops of religion. ... As the church now turns with missionary zeal, courage and sacrifice to the high adventure of the abolition of war, we may look forward with renewed assurance to the final victory of peace and goodwill among...
...article on Maximilian of Mexico, had the author censured. He violently defended the reign of Leopold II even when no one was attacking it. His moods changed with Hamlet-like rapidity, and politicians said he always agreed with the last speaker. The assassination of Tsar Nicholas was a terrible shock to him, and he felt that Clemenceau was endangering the monarchical principle by dethroning the princes of Central Europe. Suspecting slights, he felt that Foch showed wretched taste by remarking that he had gone to Italy to rescue "poor King Victor Emmanuel by the skin of his teeth." Once...