Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Auckland, the retiring British Ambassador to the U. S., advised the panic-mongers to calm themselves. "This," said he, "is not the time for panic mongering or wild talk. Undoubtedly the advent of a new party?a most inexperienced party?of which certain extremists make proposals which shock us, has caused uneasiness, but there has been no panic, nor anything that can be described as such. The sky is not black with pound notes winging their way across the Atlantic, but doubtless much investment is being done abroad. However, world trade and British prosperity are balanced on a knife edge...
...comes as somewhat of a shock that even they must chase the almighty dollar in their exhibition of handiwork which opened in New York yesterday, but most people are of the opinion that such a course is preferable to entering the movies--and of course one enterprising cinema promoter has already made such an offer. It is a mistake to believe the motion picture cannot be associated with anything artistic or sacred, but the Passion Play of Oberammergau in the movies? Well...
...would seem scarcely credible that any cranny of the earth remained still hid from Mr. Zeigfield's keen-eyed scouts. And failing, they will be ridiculously ridiculous where Ponce de Leon was sublimely so. But the world will hope for their success, if only to see what a shock Mr. Zeigfield would receive to find the "Geryon" loaded with beauties actually discovered by somebody else...
...Omomura, cheerful scientist of the Nugata Meteorological Observatory, considered next to Dr. Omori the greatest expert on the origin of earthquakes, told the Japanese that another great and destructive shock will visit Northwestern Japan "within 20 years." "The deplorable fact is," he continued, "that in the present state of seismological developments there is no foretelling the exact date the visitation will come...
...first the Earlforwards were snug and contented as bonds in a safe-deposit box ? in spite of Elsie's shock ing appetite for an occasional square meal ? and Elsie, too, was as con tented as a servant can properly expect to be, except when she remembered her shell-shocked suitor, Joe, who had disappeared shortly before the Earlforwards' marriage. But Henry's passion finally proved too strong for him ? he ate less and less (food is so costly), to Violet's great anxiety and in spite of all she could do. And Violet, too, began to wither...