Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Default . . . might have administered a shock to the moral sense of our people. ... A plea in formâ pauperis that we be let off with part payment would not have been dignified...
...small apartment on 16th Street. She works around his Capitol office, reads the Congressional Record for him, has been on the House payroll for $208.33 per month as his secretary. On Saturdays they answer the accumulated mail of the week, go calling on Sundays. Politician Rainey- With his shock of white hair, his fine head, his ruddy complexion, his Windsor tie, his heavy crooked pipe Representative Rainey might well be taken for a great British statesman. Yet in political mind and manner he is bound firmly to the U. S. soil. In the House he first (1903) attracted attention...
...Albert Soloman Hyman did not want to talk last week about the electrified gold needle with which he revives hearts stopped by shock. But a shipment of the needles and accessory generating equipment was coming into Manhattan from Germany, dispatched by Siemens & Halske who made the devices according to Dr. Hyman's instructions. The Press learned of this, asked questions...
...Hyman shoves the needle through the patient's ribs until it pierces the right auricle of the stopped heart, then starts the generator. Six out of ten people "dead"' from shock revive, if they receive attention within ten minutes of "death...
...Kibbee) loses his badge for failing to apprehend the lunatic but not until a lion (Jackie, of the Selig Zoo, Los Angeles) has escaped from his cage and crawled into a taxicab from which he presently emerges to enter the Casino just after its guests have survived the shock of the holdup. All this assorted violence, sometimes tragic, sometimes farcical, makes Central Park a thoroughly diverting, wholly unreliable portrait of an environment which most small children find dull because it contains nothing more dangerous than rocks, squirrels and bad-tempered nurses...