Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that of (to use your own attractive phraseology) suave, pale-faced Lawson Walton, K.C., by whom Wright was defended. While the suicide was happening. Rufus Isaacs, as he then was, was engaged in a consultation in his chambers. The news was brought to him, and gave him a terrible shock, so he told...
...need for an American historian who understands the spirit of the country is defined by Bernard Fay in the current Scribners. He points out that "America. . .prey to a tremendous upheaval and laboring under the shock of events which make inoperative an exact sense of her mission and her national aims, needs a first rate instruction in history at once." Other countries have various forces which contribute to national unity, such as the language in France and the traditions of literature and art in Germany; but America lacks these. History has taken that position in this country, according to Professor...
...Harvard station will be able to record practically every earth shock of any force occurring anywhere on the earth, and will not only give the time of the quake but its precise location. Although destructive earthquakes are relatively infrequent, there being approximately 100 every year, slight quivering of the earth's surface are being recorded constantly
...summered it and wintered it, tried it drunk and tried it sober; there's nothing in it--save Boston." The Review explains that "the boy-and-girl quality of society in Boston is of course due to the proximity of Harvard College." It comes always as something of a shock when we are given the giftie to see oursels as others see us; however, Adams annoyance at the strong collegiate infusion in Back Bay circles seems less downright if one remembers his brother's caustic remarks about the college itself...
...like oysters. I'm not fond of parsley?tastes like a grave." He "avoids regular hours of sleep. . . . Perhaps his most unexpected personal characteristic is that he never looks at a man's face and never recognizes a face. ... He can be relentless to the point of cruelty: the shock of his anger, which is a cold, quiet, laughing anger, is violent. ... He does not believe that heroes exist or ever have existed; he suspects them all of being frauds ... an incurable romantic . . . obvious menace to civilization...