Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This treatise and others like it sent a shock through London, and he was denounced in the pulpits throughout the city, efforts being made to bring him within definite parliamentary censure...
...Their one regret is that they cannot greet you in this building. Yet there is no building that could withstand the shock of their greeting. And so they are now gathering outside, amid surroundings that have become inseparable parts of their lives, to give you a fitting reception in their own barbaric...
...latest novel, "The Dancing Floor," Mr. Buchan shifts somewhat his old location of the Highlands, and his gentlemen are not of his usual type of British sportsmen. It is, in fact, somewhat of a shock to see his technique work as well amongst the hills of an Aegan island as amongst his own Trossachs, and the psychological actuate his characters where once the adventurous ran them in and out of impossible situations. But the change is not displeasing nor unconvincing. He shows, moreover, a knowledge of ancient rites and prehistoric religions that lend a peculiar fascination to the tale...
Above all else. Justice McKenna loved his wife. They had lived together for 55 years when she died two years ago. The shock of her death was so great that he re-signed from the Supreme Court...
...always been the feeling, a more or less indefinite one it is true, of the Student Vagabond, that Benjamin Franklin is one of our over-rated historical characters. Perhaps this feeling is due more than anything else to the shock which he experienced when he realized that the story of Franklin entering Philadelphia eating a roll and with another under his arm,--a story told him when a small child and constituting his only knowledge of the statesman--was, as Mark Twain points out, not such a wonderful thing after all. Anyone could have done...