Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach. The Brothers Shubert, scrambling out of bankruptcy, have already presented Joe Cook to gasping audiences, will put on a Follies with Fanny Brice. In collaboration with Jed Harris the Shuberts will produce The Green Bay Tree, a play about sexual abnormality calculated to shock as thoroughly as did The Captive. A sequel to Of Thee I Sing, by the same authors and with the same cast, will appear soon, to be called Let 'Em Eat Cake. Frederick Lonsdale's new play, Foreigners, will be given a production by Arch Selwyn. Maria Jeritza...
...research, her aim in coming to the city, she replied: "To improve my mind." Meanwhile. Mrs. Smith of Oregon or New Mexico or Virginia, reads of all these famous people from New York, the Federal agencies, Rochester, Minn., etc., etc., and it seems to her like the gathering of shock troops to combat, as it were, the Black Death in the annas...
...Severe shock...
...brilliantly illuminated. At Feisal's hotel most of the lights were respectfully and suddenly extinguished. That, accompanied by the cries of Feisal's nurse and his entourage, created such a disturbance that one of the hotel's elderly directors, a M. Eggimann, collapsed and died from shock...
...American platform today." Editor of World Tomorrow, he teaches at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. Unlike that other preacher-to-the-young, Daniel Alfred ("Dan") Poling (whom Author Jones does not include among his chosen 32), Niehbuhr is "recusant, an independent, a pathfinder. . . . Niehbuhr loves to shock the complacent; Poling to inspire the indifferent. . . . Poling is a lesser Bryan; Niehbuhr a more intellectual Debs...