Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shock Treatment. In Hammond, Ind., Ted Blocker took a look at the size of his dinner check, staggered, fell through the cafe's plate-glass window, got a quickly revised bill showing an extra...
...center of Paris, the pilgrims were joined by a shock troop of art students in weird disguises (see cut). In the afternoon, the proprietors of all the Paris dress houses threw parties for their midinettes (Christian Dior gave his on the first platform of the Eiffel Tower). The spirit of the occasion was best summarized by one reveler who threw a Camembert, in just the right state of decomposition, up to the ceiling; there it stuck, slowly dripping cheese on the gaiety below...
...motion voting session started that evening. One scholarly Liberal slowly recited Hamlet's "To be or not to be" in Japanese as he stood poised over the ballot box, waving a yes ballot and a no ballot in either hand. A wild fist-swinging melee began when opposition shock troops tried to rush the Speaker's rostrum...
...spite of intimations to the contrary, the coming Smoker should be a lusty replica of its pre-war counterpart, not a colorless compromise reminiscent of short-shrift USO combos. The tremendous carnivals of the past that tried to "make Daniel Boones of Freshmen" and worried lost they "shock the boys," belong with gate-welding, goldfish gulpings, and other rah-rah episodes now practically non-existent. It is up to the Freshman Class to conjure up a Smoker so well-rounded with frolic and so fully-packed with talent that the air will be blue for days...
Copley painted Paul Revere sitting in shirtsleeves at a workbench, but he would never have portrayed a common stevedore. He married into society, and the Boston Tea Party came as a shock and a bother. In 1774, Copley sailed out of trouble to England, leaving behind a harshly energetic and thoroughly credible portrait gallery of such political rebels as Samuel Adams and Thomas Mifflin...