Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three times in about a year you have printed profanity, and it is a great shock to me to find myself repeating such language...
Malvy. Minister of Interior Louis Malvy departed for Nice during the week, there to recuperate from the shock to his nerves caused when he was ruthlessly attacked in the Chamber (TIME, March 29) and fainted dead away. It was later rumored that he would resign. Thus M. Briand was placed in a slightly better position for conciliating the potent enemies of Malvy on the Right, who want him out of the Cabinet at all costs. His equally important friends on the Left found themselves in a position to let him slip out under the age-old cloak of diplomats, "illness...
...protesting his innocence with his hand over his heart. Then he shrieked, clutched his left breast and fell in a swoon. He was carried from the Chamber amid genuine pandemonium. He recovered consciousness 20 minutes later, only to faint again. Physicians declared that his weak heart had suffered a shock from which he can scarcely recover for some weeks...
...market Professor Cunningham said that he thought it due more to a natural reaction to the former high inflation than to the effect of the collapse of the Nickel Plate merger, that the bubble of speculation had already reached undue proportions and needed only the prick of some such shock as this to make it burst...
Fortunately there are four acts and the last two rouse themselves remarkably. You find out just what happened to the wife's lover and to the husband's mistress and to their various children. You see it is French, and very little has apparently been done to ease the shock on staid Manhattan nerves. So staid, indeed, are these nerves that the shock will perhaps pass unnoticed. Embers is not a spectacular show; it is just a pretty good Paris problem, more picturesquely solved than usual...