Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Luer, a banker, packer and Alton's first citizen, offered to telephone the neighbor. His slippers flew off as his captors seized and dragged him to a waiting automobile. Mr. Luer's sons, fearful lest their father's serious heart ailment be fatally aggravated by the shock of his capture, broadcast that Mr. Luer should be allowed to stand up if an attack came on, should be given no coffee, only mild cigars. "We cannot accept any ring, stickpin, or fingerprints," they warned. "You can take such things from a dead man. We must have something...
...death of Professor Babbitt is a grievous event which will shock those who have loved or envied Harvard for its handful of truly great thinkers. But the student of Professor Babbitt who has studied the details of his life-long fight against the drifting artificial culture with which many so-called "moderns" annoint themselves, will realize the two-fold significance of his death. For the world has lost a remarkable man; at once a brilliant teacher and a great warrior...
...great majority of thinking men who viewed with intense disapproval the strangulation of foreign trade by a competitive tariff race, this doctrine of "intra-nationalism" will come as something of a shock. Before condemning it out of hand, they should recognize that the laisser faire economy in which the free traders proved their case is rapidly ceasing to exists. This country has embarked on a far-reaching program of national economic planning. It may be that the domestic adjustments of this program would be upset if our commodity and capital markets were open without restriction to foreign influences...
...answer Mr. Medalie pointed out that a man of advanced years and social position would naturally suffer a severe shock at being brought to book for a serious crime. He did not want Banker Harriman's sanity tried by a lay jury but rather by Judge Caffey himself...
...those two eminently worthy old gentlemen Dr. Isaac Kauffman Funk and Dr. Adam Willis Wagnalls could have returned to earth last week to check up on their Literary Digest, they might have suffered enough of a shock to send them kiting back to their Lutheran heaven. As recently as two weeks ago there would have been no shock at all. For, two weeks ago, they would have found the Digest bearing a tasteful painting of horses & riders taking a water-jump in a steeplechase. (Not quite so happy as one Digest cover of a year ago showing a tot peering...