Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opposition of the Legion to the Conference was inevitable and in keeping with its tradition of shortsighted reaction; the action of the State Department, if not expected, was not a great shock; but the alliance of Schlesinger with the bogus A.I.F. was certainly a surprise in his own community, which has come to think of him as a sober and considered political thinker. The Conference he chose to attack probably won't accomplish anything, thanks to the opposition to it. His opposition is justified on the grounds of personal belief; but more reasoned and more careful disapproval might have carried...
...says Poet-Critic Thomas Stearns Eliot, 1948 Nobel Prizewinner, in the opening pages of his new book. But the reader who thinks this modest pronouncement means that dignified Poet Eliot is going to settle down to a donnish little tussle with Noah Webster had better brace himself for a shock. In Notes Towards the Definition of Culture Eliot advances a view of present-day western civilization that is as pessimistic as his famed post-World War I opus, The Waste Land. What's in a Word? U.S.-born T.S. Eliot migrated to England in 1914, and quickly became what...
...sports, it held the Straus trophy throughout the war. In rooms, it has everything from singles to septuples. In food it dishes out the same stuff as five other Louses, but it dulls the shock but serving it in a trapezoidal dining hall with loads of room for everybody...
Bloom's cadavers have not sold as well as his other work, but he is optimistic about the eventual market, after the first shock wears off. One customer has been Author Glenway Wescott (Apartment in Athens), who bought an amputated leg with a gangrenous foot, hung it on his dining-room wall...
After the first shock wore off, screams were heard from as far away as London. Who did Louis think he was, anyway, dictating his own successor? The loudest screams came from Promoter Mike Jacobs, semi-retired boss of Manhattan's 20th Century Sporting Club: "I never thought he would do this to me . . . I'm getting back in harness in two weeks. We ain't conceding nothing." It was clear to him that Promoter Joe had declared war on Promoter Mike, the man who masterminded all of Louis' championship fights...