Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even acts of supreme violence lose their power to shock when repeated a sufficient number of times at a sufficient distance. Ever since the French League Mandate was established over Syria (1922) the rebellious Druses and other savage natives have been selling their lives dearly almost daily in guerilla attacks upon the French Army of Occupation. For eight months the French garrison at Damascus has bombarded that city or its environs almost nightly (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.). Scarcely a morning dawns that French airplanes do not drone aloft to release bombs. At Aleppo, Horns, Hama, Seraand, Suedia and Salkhad...
...inconsiderable sum. Harvard leads the list with $13,931,780. Princeton is second with $9,902,904 and is closely followed by Northwestern, Hampton-Tuskegee and the University of Chicago. The average of the sixty-eight drives is $2,196,928. This sum is less impressive, but the shock comes with the analysis of separate contributions, which is thus summed up. "Alumni do not play as important a giving part as sometimes believed...
Volcano (Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez). The stage this week, as listed elsewhere, had its South Sea show with a restless volcano for shock effect. So too, the screen. The screen can, of course, do much better by a volcano than can the stage. The eruption in this picture is excellently emotional, if one has after hundreds of movies emotion left for natural disorders. The story is pretty feeble, with Miss Daniels playing the "native" girl and Mr. Cortez the handsome, clear-skinned lover. The volcano bursts all over the middle of the sweet sentiment and ends the picture vigorously enough...
...shock its readers, the New Yorker (a little magazine but a considerable financial success, published by the sophisticates of the metropolis for their would-be-sophisticate fellow townsfolk)last week published an article titled "The First Lady" purporting to be an intimate portrait of Mrs. Coolidge, by one Paul A. Burns. Carefully skirting the shoals of libel, his thesis ended very neatly in the port of Lese Majest...
...brilliant but inclined to be erratic. Ogden Mills is just coming in. He is a Republican and comes from the silk stocking district of Manhattan, a Harvard man, with plenty of money, able, incisive, one of the best on the Ways and Means Committee. The man with the shock of white hair is Haugen, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture whose farm bill is raising such a rumpus. You see that smart young man who is going around and making so much of a party out of this? That is John Philip Hill of Maryland, who has appropriated to himself...