Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annoyed with the author, one case excepted, when he alludes to the famous five letter word of Cambronne; but since the word evokes much laughter from the insanely practical Frenchmen, one may strike on the solution of this little mystery without resorting to an encyclopedia by wondering what would shock a staid Anglo Saxon. Hillel Bernstein writes simple prose, gently mocking everything in France by la France, and not forgetting to take a poke at some of our noble customs and institutions such as the "Busters" which vaguely resembles the American Legion, or the Gold Star Legation. Bernstein's satire...
...month ago Continental Illinois' directors, still guilelessly believing that Mr. Jones did not want to interfere in the bank, set out to pick a new chairman. They settled on George Alfred Ranney, onetime treasurer of International Harvester, now vice chairman of Commonwealth Edison Co. Then they got a shock. From Washington sped a report that Walter Joseph Cummings, head of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., was to have the job (TIME, Dec. 25). Again Mr. Jones repeated his promises, but by last week Continental Illinois knew that being in Mr. Jones's parlor was like being in the parlor...
...CADAVER of GIDEON WYCK- Edited by Alexander Laing-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Even readers who pay little attention to publishers' blurbs may find their hackles rising in pleasant anticipation when they spy on The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck's jacket: WARNING People unable to sustain violent shock are advised that they read this book on their own responsibility. AND THE PUBLISHERS REALLY MEAN THIS. The book read, their hackles relapse in disappointment. Though Editor Laing's anonymous tale starts off promisingly enough on horrifying tiptoe, it soon bumps down to the flat policeman tread of any cheerful murder...
...opened once by special legislative act at your request with disastrous results. This was followed in the last weeks of office of the preceding administration by a scandalous indifference to public needs. ... To say the American institutions demand a continuance of this dreary and futile process comes as a shock and a disillusionment to the people of this city. . . . "You talk about dictatorship. None has been proposed. I am asking sound city management. Prudent businessmen . . . recognize it as business management. Politicians call it dictatorship. . . . We cannot effect economies with platitudes, nor can we balance our budget with an essay. . . . Your...
Chevrolet and Pontiac have a knee-action all their own-a lever arm acting on an enclosed coil spring. Chevrolet and Pontiac knee assemblies look like a huge shock absorber. In other GM models two yokes with an open coil spring between are used. Chevrolet is heavier, longer and more powerful this year...