Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pistoja amid a bombardment of sibilant Italian hisses. In the open country two automobiles barred the road. The Amendola car stopped, instantly the party was set upon by about 15 stalwart Fascisti and soundly clubbed. At Pistoja, a few minutes later, the Deputy was found to be suffering from shock, numerous contusions and some nasty cuts. Nothing dangerous developed and he was shipped back to his home in Rome...
Robert Jr. has his father's chubby face. Philip has the shock of hair. Robert Jr. is a practical politician, knows how all the wheels go 'round, the genial type who gains the personal liking of all who have to do with him. Philip is an orator with so many of his father's traits and tricks of speech as to appear almost a mimick. Combined, they make an almost exact replica of their father...
STORIES OF OLD IRELAND AND MYSELF-Sir William Orpen, R. A.-Holt ($3.50). ". . . In Paris I rushed to the Louvre. When I entered the Salle Carrée, there before me was the Mona Lisa. That was a shock. I not only did not like it, I hated it. It made me feel sick. . . . I rushed out. . . . I went back. . . . I was still horrified at thinking her so horrible. The slimy paint, like that of the Yiddish School of the present day! I listened to what people were saying. . . . 'That expression!' . . . 'Leonardo has here expressed womanhood...
William Tyler Page, Clerk of the House of Representatives, within the building, felt the shock remarked : "It happens every now and then...
...Tajima lies to the northeast of Osaka on the main island of Hondo. The maximum intensity of the earthquake was felt some 80 miles from Osaka, which is situate on the south shore. Seismographs recorded horizontal vibrations measuring nearly three inches and lasting several minutes. Experts declared the shock the greatest for the district in 30 years. John Barton Payne, Chairman of the American Red Cross, cabled: "Our deepest sympathy for sufferers in the disaster...