Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said to have good points. Edward Everett Horton can be quite amusing. Busby Berkeley has been known to create clever choral monstrosities. With the above ingredients, tempered by a dash of Glenda Farrell, we have "Caliente" which aims to be a heady cinematic cocktail; it should be no shock to learn that like mice and men, movie magnates are also visited by the ganging agley of plans. In short: "Caliente" misses fire...
However, the shock came to me when I discovered that I had participated in the same cruise, that I had associated with the same Dr. Morrison on several occasions in our travel expeditions and that I was with him in Nazareth, possibly on the same day; and the Franciscan guide who acted as our cicerone was extremely scientific, insisting that these places were only traditional sites, with no great certitude connected with any given spot. Certainly, he mentioned nothing about the actual pillars and definite places. It is unfortunate that Dr. Morrison met up with an exception. It is doubly...
...Gatti's gloomy old office there awaited serious business for romantic Edward Johnson. He found that he had fallen heir to nine new singers, signed up by Witherspoon just before his death.* Greatest shock came with the realization that some of the big stars had not been re-engaged, not Pons nor Ponselle nor Lehmann nor Schipa nor Tibbett. Conclusion was that the Metropolitan had resorted to poor economy but New Manager Johnson was instantly soothing. Negotiations were still in process. In the future young U. S. singers would be granted greater opportunities but not, if he could help...
...half a million dollars by a Hollywood firm to make two pictures. Out of loyalty to me she rejected the offer. When I arrive she may reconsider the offer. I may even be offered a small part. I am willing to play the second part. That would be another shock for the family...
Major John Gander, richest and most respected citizen of Lammiter. was a crotchety old bachelor but he had his share of relatives. And at his death they all looked forward rather than back. The will was a great shock to all of them: it left the bulk of his estate to the one who should have become the parent of the most legitimate children in a limited time. As only two of the heirs-apparent were married, and only one of them had a child, the race promised to be interesting. Katherine, the childless wife, went rushing off to meet...