Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comes as a shock that a segment of the public . . . [is] campaigning noisily against universal training. . . . Okay, mother. Okay, professor. Okay, parson. But are you willing to take the consequences, if you lead us into World...
George White's Scandals (RKO Radio) will come as something of a shock to young cinemaddicts who have always heard that there is nothing like the good old days in show business. Scandals - particularly its gags - is exactly like the old days and is thus likely to excite only a few nostalgic oldtimers...
...lovers get away with the murder for a while-but cannot get away from themselves. Guilt and remorse gnaw at their marriage until the old mother (Dame May Whitty) becomes aware of their crime. Paralyzed by the shock, mother sits speechless but blazing-eyed in a wheelchair, biding her time. It comes at last, and with it a spurt of good theater...
...advised by 'Poon officialdom that an unwary Radcliffe girl once sent in a subscription check without the usual coercion of the circulation department. The incident proved such a shock that the staff, instead of the check, bounced into paralysis. After two frustrating years of silence from the boys, bloody but unbowed she sent another two bucks to Lampy's lottery...
...Reader Rockwell's shock was caused by the U.S. Public Health Service, whose official figures TIME used...