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Word: shockingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shock of Sayles' death upset Tony so much that Natalie found him no longer pliant to her attractions. He took her back to Gortion in the face of a finger-pointing Berkenmeer, left the assets of the aviation company (which Gortion had purchased) at zero, hopped a freight for Peoria, saying: "Jeeze! . . . That society stuff was beginning to get on my nerves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Parachute | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...McFarland, 82, of Horse Cave, Ky., yawned, dislocated both of his jawbones, had them reset, died of the shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Yegg | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...Brother Benito announced the incorporation of the Fascist Militia as an "independent unit" in the Italian Army, declaring at a Fascist rally in Rome: "I am sure the Fascist legions fully deserve this honor. . . . They must become our shock troops-daggers between teeth, grenades in hand and supreme contempt of danger at heart." Those who thought this sounded like the incorporation of a band of autonomous brigands in the Italian army were not reassured when Il Duce concluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Soundings by Mussolini* | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...with somewhat of a shock that one learns, in the annual report of the Alumni Appointment Office, that there are at least 2259 unemployed or dissatisfied-with-their-present-position Harvard graduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLLEGE TRAINED BREAD LINE | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

INTERFERENCE-Velvety London dialog muffles the shock of murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 26, 1927 | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

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