Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heinz Spanknoebel, a pert young man with a shock of hair, came to live in the U. S. three years ago. A Seventh Day Adventist minister, he left his wife and children in Wurzburg, set up in Detroit as a photograph finisher. He made no attempt to become naturalized, and has always boasted of himself as "one of the original Nazis." With the accession of Chancellor Hitler, Heinz Spanknoebel was appointed head of the U. S. Nazis by Dr. Ley of the Nazi Foreign Propaganda Bureau in Hamburg. Mounting foreign protests, and the dismal failure of Nazi propaganda in foreign...
Stephen Leacock, the astounding fellow who possesses both a Professorship in Economics and what some people have seen fit to term a sense of humor, has completed a magnum opus, a life of Charles Dickens, which is to be published on November 16. It is something of a shock to consider the name Leacock in connection with a serious work. It will be interesting to note whether that shock interferes with an appreciation of the work...
...opinion, the only slogan to which it will have any right will be "On to Bigger and Better Defeats." Only a political miracle can save the party from collapse if it breaks down before the issue once more; only a series of unexpectedly crude tactics by the Conservatives will shock the Labourites into a realization of the immensity and the necessity of their real task. And by that time it may be too late. CASTOR...
...write into the statute books of the Commonwealth, "Intoxicating beverages shall not be sold to anyone under the age of eighteen," will undoubtedly be a distinct shock to the type of people who like to believe that it is not suitable for young men of the age between eighteen and twenty-one to drink, and therefore should not be allowed to. The fact remains, however, that young men of this age do drink, and, what is more, nothing will stop them. It is far more appropriate to discriminate between the school boy and the college man, who is supposedly taking...
Mellifluous sentiment oozes from the mouth of Lionel Barrymore. It is a pleasant shock. Only once in his performance as the unselfish country doctor does he resort to his hair-pulling act. "One Man's Journey" depicts the life of a generous rural physician who struggles and struggles to amass enough money for research work. When he has the opportunity to go to the medical center in New York, he is detained because little Letty McGinnis swallows iodine. At the end we see him still struggling in the country. "One Man's Journey" is not an epic...