Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over the week-end Great Little Gaston remained obstinately at his holiday retreat, but it became obvious that he must return to Paris and intervene between Minister of State Herriot and Minister of State Tardieu, each of whom was demanding that the other resign. The shock of M. Tardieu's attack sent prices down on the Paris Bourse and many editors condemned as reckless and unpatriotic his attempt to rupture the Cabinet. In an effort to give Great Little Gaston all possible support President Albert Lebrun praised his "wisdom and prudence" in a formal speech at Aurillac, then declared...
...there arose 1 mighty, measured yell: N N N N A A A A V V V V Y Y Y Y Nay-vee! Holy Father! Holy Father! Holy Father! As had Benito Mussolini when he got similar acclaim at the Palazzo Venetia, Pius XI recovered from the shock quickly and gracefully. He called "Hank" Muller to him for congratulations, smilingly waved down at 399 red, grinning faces...
...which can afford to be more factual, he is beginning to appear in all three dimensions. Such a three-dimensional portrait of a racketeer is Brain Guy. A more honest and complete picture than The Postman Always Rings Twice (TIME, Feb. 19), it is written with lengthier brutality, will shock readers who dislike unpleasant subjects, but will entrance those who prefer violent realism...
...novel with a Social Message. Its message is in the form of an implicit and unresolved question: Who is responsible for aged parents, and what is to be done about them? The unsentimental coldness with which Author Lawrence states her typical case-history is well calculated to shock readers into horrified protest, but the exaggerated indifference of her manner saves her story from drabness, gives it a painful point...
...husbands). Julius turned up with an English wife and a new name: Justin Marmaduke Gooderson. Papa Mayer and Son Pincus shook their heads but made the best of it. But when Son David-Yusel came to town disguised by his wife as the Mohammedan Prince Yusef ben Mameluke, the shock was too much for his father. Whether or not he had died laughing, he left his chief blessing to the honest son who still rejoiced in his given name of Pincus Marmelstein...