Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nine out of ten Americans who have read these and other shock-slogans of fund-raising campaigns have felt the desired shiver. The tenth, who did not, was Albert Deutsch. Mr. Deutsch, who writes a medical and social welfare column in the New York Star, finally felt annoyed. Wrote Deutsch last week: "When the whole grim truth is told, one out of every one of us dies. Period. I am disturbed by the sustained note of terror in the slogans constantly tossed at us by worthy health organizations in efforts to pry loose . . . enough dollars to fight effectively some particular...
...Belligerent Air. After the first shock wore off, Giant fans began to act like Communists the day after a switch in the party line. They grudgingly admitted that Leo would give the Giants a belligerent air. He might even breathe some fire into a club which hadn't known a man-sized blaze since the late great John J. McGraw left 16 years ago. Leo was the McGraw type-aggressive, hot-tempered, hell on umpires and a great tactician...
...gave 20th Century music its biggest shock seemed to have abruptly turned his back on his times, and gone back beyond Bach. "It was wrong to consider me a revolutionary," he says. "All I did was a few inventions...
...Mare has made two trips to the U.S., bringing back impressions of train travel that might give Americans a shock of recognition-"and the dread tolling of the engine's bell-surely, apart from that monster's prehistoric trumpetings, the saddest sound in Christendom-as one's huge metallic caravan edges slowly through Main Street...
...people he left behind at RKO were not taking it so calmly. In a business where many of the bosses learned about movies in banks or haberdasheries, there was a special fondness for a producer who had worked his way up from a scripter. "It was a great shock," said one admirer. "That man is a writer...