Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change his name to Barr. This eugenic experiment is finally successful after Cabot Barr has forbidden his granddaughter to have anything to do with the adopted son. Cabot's son, afraid of losing his inheritance, tries to prove his father insane, but is unsuccessful. But the shock is too much for the old boy. He makes his will and gradually dies away. After his death the whole family is summoned to hear his will read, and there are surprises for every...
...like an Attila through the Province of Moldavia, taking Red vengeance on still pious citizens who were found to have raised the standard of religion. On the other hand, Godless Yaroslavsky was keeping up a keen fight in the Moscow Press with organized young Red zealots who claim that shock brigadiers like themselves have no time for the bliss of placid wedlock. The rumpus started when Komsomolskaya Pravda, newsorgan of the 5,000,000 Communist Youths, printed a symposium of letters from its readers...
...Anti-Dreyfusards. Grey and haggard, he lived to see Emile Zola & friends clear his name, to serve at the front in the World War, to be raised to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Last week, to many a Frenchman troubled by L' Affaire Stavisky, it came as a shock to be reminded that Colonel Dreyfus still lived. In a Paris hospital, tortured by nightmares of Devil's Island, afflicted with gland trouble and nearly blind, the central figure in the most famed of France's causes célebrès was passing his 75th birthday...
...title refers to the Jesuits' role as "the shock troops...
...those who were laboring under the impression that Big Business was not in the saddle of N.R.A., the statement of Mr. Richberg last Thursday comes, the writer imagines, as a severe shock. To quote him: "These difficulties in N.R.A. have come. . . because of the pressure of businessmen to experiment with de- vices that they thought would do them good and which they have found in many instances are doing them harm." This is why Big Business is protesting the contemplated move by N.R.A. to abandon price control, despite its failure to raise prices. Big Business invented N.R.A. Big Business wants...