Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arrival. A small & bulgy man stepped of the S.S. Rotterdam in Manhattan last week, faced a battery of cameras, obligingly revealed a shock of springy red hair, grinned far into his freckled cheeks and quickly left the pier. No customs officers molested his baggage, no questions were asked, for he was Josef Willem Mengelberg,* high man in Holland, come once more with diplomatic passport to conduct the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Pressmen followed him, asked hurriedly of concerts abroad, of his villa in Switzerland (with its five subcellars), learned that he had held seance with Conductor Arturo Toscanini at Lake...
Tariff Law. A staggering shock jarred the nerves of U. S. businessmen in Paris: the French government published the full text of its new general tariff law, wherein it was found that $80,000,000 worth of goods sold by the U. S. in France was subject to a maximum duty ranging from 100% to 13% higher than formerly...
Then a note of warning shot into his speech, like a drop of hot red ink into a bucket of cold clear water. Rasped he: "We are the same old revolutionaries, and if our enemies think we have grown sleepy and lazy through administration, they will get a rude shock...
...rise and kept on rising until I thought they would burst and drench all of us with blood. . . . Sacco's neck was swelling to a huge inhuman size. . . . The saliva was literally pouring out of his mouth. . . . Try to compare 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit* [the temperature of the death shock] with 100 degrees in the shade when you complain of the heat and you get some idea how cultured and conservative Massachusetts roasts her murderers alive. . . . And how these Bostonians get a dead man out of the chair! . . . Elliott . . . started to put on the electrode and now I observed that...
...False. A death shock consists of 1,500 to 2,000 volts of electricity. The resistance of the prisoner's body would not produce 1,000 degrees of heat unless the current were continued for about four and one-half minutes. Because of its high voltage, the death shock does not have to be and is not protracted beyond one and one-half minutes. No great heat is generated in the victim's body in that time...