Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a great shock and surprise for you," said Senator Robinson with mock gravity. "Restrain yourself. Congress is organized and ready to receive any communication you desire to make...
...Roosevelt would not have been surprised that his great-grandson Theodore should become 26th President of the U. S. Nor would he have been greatly startled when his second cousin three times removed became the 32nd President of the U. S. But what would have given him a severe shock would have been the signing by any Roosevelt in the White House of a law which would split his venerable firm three ways...
...foresight of glowworms, the Republicans were prepared to leap gleefully on Mr. Roosevelt and see him overwhelmed by public disapproval of his monstrous expenditures, whil they posed grandiloquently as the saviors of their country or at least of their country's credit. Mr. Snell announced that he was so shocked that he did not expect to recover for "several days." The several days have passed and Mr. Snell is apparently still laid low with shock -- or, at any rate, if he is capable of learning anything, he has retired into a silence which will probably not be pregnant...
...sorrow from a bad boy, a bad girl, and a bad man. Her first cigarette, her first cocktail, and her first kiss are not followed in quick succession by her first illegitimate child only because her lover has a hundred dollars to hire a doctor. The shock of almost being had by her father on the night after her abortion (a rape is only a rape, they say, but this somehow seems a little more) is too much, and she dies with her penitent pater and no less penitent though virtuous mater at her bedside, resolving to tell their next...
...medium in which the gland tissue to be grafted is placed. The gland tissue gradually becomes accustomed to the serum, and thus to the biological character of its owner-to-be. When Dr. Stone finally fits a thyroid or parathyroid graft into a new body, the graft suffers no shock, takes firm and lasting root, grows and supplies essential hormones. In the Stone technique whole glands are not necessary for grafting. A few strong cells suffice, and their surrender causes the donor no discomfort...