Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agin the government'' in every possible way, Heretic Nock makes some general observations that may well shock traditional minds. "A pretty Frenchwoman is worth mention; I never saw more than three that I can remember." Disbelievers in capital punishment will applaud his shrewdness: "When kidnapping was made a capital crime, probably not a single legislator realized that he was voting to put a premium on murder, and to provide a direct encouragement to lynching." A life- long believer in the late Henry George's single tax, he has "never propagandized for it, because our people would...
...serpent has at last broken from forced hibernation and reared his head over Cambridge. His return must be a shock to those who believed him safely buried forever. But he is with us for a short visit at least, and to our rulers he is an unwelcome guest. The laws of diplomacy, not to say self-preservation, require his handling with kid gloves. Yet there is a dark hint of exile: would it not be well to banish the unfortunately immortal serpent once more, and break off diplomatic relations with the animal kingdom...
...book contains an exceedingly fine contemporary account, written by Hill, of the Harvard of that time. This generation, brought up to understand that the boys of a century ago were polite little drones spending all of their time at the few books the country boasted, will receive an enjoyable shock at Hill's account of the antics of his confreres. He writes "there is a scandal-here, I don't care who says to the contrary . . . There is nothing but mischief in their heads from morn to night. . . Our windows were broken almost every night and at last we moved...
...grown up in Worcester and in Worcester he had chosen to end his days. He never posed as a great composer. At the last he was a square-shouldered, square-mustachioed old man who might have been taken for a retired army officer and who liked to shock his friends by saying that he preferred a good horse race to a concert...
...some town & county elders PWA's offering came as a shock. Their contracts permitted PWA to sell the bonds, but every municipal and county official had hoped against hope that these securities, which represented 70% of the cost of local projects, would eventually lapse to a par with the 30% outright grant. Bond Dealer Ickes, however, was dead set on turning over his inventory so he could buy more bonds, make more work...