Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West with him instead of marrying the British nobleman her family has chosen. In California they live in a cabin, have a child, raise cattle. Rustlers steal the cattle. John organizes a posse, hangs three rustlers. The rustlers burn the cabin, cause the baby to die of shock. John & Mary build a new cabin, have four more children. In course of time. John is nominated for Governor. When he gives a grand reception and one of the guests is a handsome brunette named Senora Martinez (Mona Maris), it comes out amazingly that John has been philandering. Even more amazingly...
...Harriman's honors, within an hour after Deputy Pinckley fled for fear of murdering him by the shock of arrest, a U. S. marshal took up his stand in the hall of the Harriman apartment and two doctors, one of them appointed by the U. S. Attorney, examined Mr. Harriman. "Coronary thrombosis," they said, "a very precarious condition." But the warrant was read to the patient, a U. S. Commissioner appeared, and Mr. Harriman, wearing a white hospital smock tied behind his neck, was arraigned in his bed. A nurse raised him up and, taking a fountain...
...this new work, Shaw has forsaken Marx and the Fabian Society and taken up new cudgels; but he is the same humorist. He takes himself no more seriously than he does his readers. He loves to shock people, although there are few things left that can shock them; and he continues to preach. He has taken a new track, but with the same engine...
...expected that the worst was over, although on the street in Los Angeles one could still feel but not hear an ominous underground rumbling. At 9:10 came a shock even more terrific than the first...
...just come back to his hotel after winning an exhibition game from the Chicago Cubs in Los Angeles. "I never experienced anything like that in my life," he said. "At first I was inclined to take it for a joke and I remember making some crack about guessing the shock of the Giants' winning a ball game being too much." Manager Terry fled to the middle of a square outside the hotel, surrounded, like a hen with chicks, by the whole Giant team. At length Trainer Willie Schafer was prevailed upon to go back into the hotel...