Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curiosity for the real facts was so strong that every news kiosk was surrounded as soon as fresh papers arrived. Eager Russians snatched, read and flung down tons of papers in disgust when they proved to contain only propaganda, such as this telegram from beyond the Arctic Circle: "WE SHOCK BRIGADE WORKERS ON THE NEVA HYDROELECTRIC STATION PLEDGE OURSELVES TO COMPLETE IT AHEAD OF TIME AS OUR ANSWER TO THE DASTARDLY ASSASSINATION OF COMRADE KIROV." The city of Vyatka, capital of the province in which the slain Big Red was born, asked and received Dictator Stalin's prompt permission...
...Were prorogued by His Majesty with a Speech from the Throne, prior to his Speech from the Throne opening Parliament again this week for the winter session. Said Proroguer George V, after recording "profound shock" at the assassinations of Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss and Yugoslav King Alexander: "The continued improvement of trade and employment among my people gives me great satisfaction...
...abandonment on our markets has split the experts into two distinct schools of thought. One camp maintains that it will be the starting gun for an international inflation race and that commodities and stocks will rise abruptly. The other group holds that it will be a severe economic shock and result in declines because our favorable export trade is dependent on a cheap dollar, which will then be a thing of the past. Again you pay your money and take your pick...
Widowed Queen Marie of Jugoslavia was painfully ill of shock, gallstones, and infected teeth. Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, her mother to whom she is "Mignon," was recuperating from an attack of influenza brought on by the bitter weather during King Alexander's funeral. Both sick women worried mightily about Dowager Queen Marie's youngest daughter, the Archduchess Ileana, expecting another baby and running a dangerous fever in Vienna...
Said Bucky Harris, whom Cronin will replace as manager at Boston: "It was a terrible shock...