Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theodore Roosevelt could be let down from the battlements of Heaven in a parachute and began without warning to say the things he said 20 years ago, he would shock, astound and paralyze the American people...
...sake of greater tolerance toward three in every hundred of his fellows, the chapter on "urnings" and "uranism" -in which the four long letters, invented or not, are as remarkable as anything that will be published this year-let the reader attend a chapter which may mightily shock and profit parents teachers, preachers, public officials and alleged adults of every sort- the chapter on "Adult Infantilism In a Nation, In an Individual, In Literature...
...frogs might have been produced., not by inheritance, but by injecting a dark fluid under the skin, perhaps India ink. When he saw this suggestion, Dr. Kammerer, who had lately been offered charge of a new government laboratory in Russia and whose suicide was to be a shock and a mystery to the many scientists that had long held him in high esteem, investigated at once...
Twins, notable since the oozy dawn of civilization, are Crime and Corruption. They frolic now from Shanghai to Paris, unashamed. Occasionally, they rear their heads up into the light and scare some, shock others. Sometimes they pop up in Washington, but their favorite modern playgrounds are in manufacturing cities where sprawling factories belch and whistle, where grimy alleys creep between frame hovels, where workingmen need stimulation Saturday nights. The so-called "better element" becomes excited only on occasions when the Rockefeller Foundation calls Detroit "the vilest city in the country," or when a newspaper publisher is murdered in Canton, Ohio...
...lifelong vegetarian, stocky, muscular, soft-voiced, with a shock of greying hair and a flowing Windsor necktie, Mr. Kellogg has been an outdoor man all his days. On his valley ranch in California he grows corn twelve feet high, according to his less skillful neighbors, by singing...