Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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January 15 "gas Poisoning, Electric Shock and Drowning". Dr. C. K. Drinker...
...first clean-shaven Cabinet in U. S. history, frowned quizzically and held something in his hands behind Attorney General Sargent's head. Secretary Curtis Dwight Wilbur (Navy) let his long arms hang at his sides and peered forth from beneath the heaviest dark eyebrows and highest shock of hair in the Cabinet, through the only pair of spectacles (rimless) in the picture...
Secretary of Labor Davis, however, had evidently been given full charge of bituminous ambiguities. Secretary Davis listened all one afternoon to blocky, shock-headed President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, whom he told he was "going to get busy with both sides at once." Director Hugh L. Kerwin of the Department of Labor's conciliation board, was another attentive listener to President Lewis. President Daniel Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. said, during the coaldusted week: "I cannot speak for the other railroads*, but as far as the Baltimore & Ohio is concerned...
...Manhattan. Having business upon the 16th floor, he enquired for the stairs. Such, however, was the appearance of the elevator starter that he allowed himself to be cajoled by friends into accepting a lift. "Let me out at the 16th floor, please," he said. With amazement and a shock of terror, he watched the operator press a little button on a switchboard at his elbow. As other passengers entered the polished car, the operator pressed a button for each, corresponding to the designated floor. Finally, at a gesture from the starter, the operator touched a lever within the car, causing...
...with something of a shock that the Vagabond read in yesterday's CRIMSON under the heading of "The Press" a clipping casting the reproach of crescent materialism upon what is in a modest sort of way the clay, so to speak, for the Vagabond's statue, the merchandise, if you must, of his business--namely, the Harvard curriculum. The writer of the clipping raised, figuratively speaking, his hands in well simulated horror at the thought that whereas the University "has a gigantic new Business School" it offers only 5 courses in Greek, while Princeton and Yale take their places...