Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Postal Shock Troops...
...postal workers be blamed for wondering why they must always fill the role of shock troops? A Bilbo, clipping newspapers at a desk lor $6,000 a year, gets no applause from a sub carrier, trying to exist at $8-or less-a week...
...Prenatal Shock...
...There is no nerve connection between mother and fetus, hence no known avenue on which the mother's shocks may travel to deform the child. Some deformities (webbed feet, cleft palate, harelip) result from arrested development in the second month of fetal existence, caused by disease or by physical injury to the mother's abdomen; others (birthmarks, extra fingers or toes) result from excessive development, may be hereditary. Zenith of prenatal impression stories is reached by one of paternal shock. A Mr. K.'s first wife had both legs cut off by a train, died...
...March day in 1932 when a certain Swede lay down on his bed at No. 5 Avenue Victor-Emmanuel III, Paris and put a bullet through his heart, there has been little but grim news for holders of Kreuger & Toll securities. Last week some of them had a new shock: Manhattan's Marine Midland Trust Co., successor trustee of Kreuger & Toll secured debenture 55, announced that on Sept. 1 it would distribute $25 to each holder of a $1,000 debenture...