Word: jolt
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Boylston Library's peace and calm received a jolt last night when one of its studious occupants received a singing telegram. Around the corner of the desk by the Wigglesworth side rose the sweet strains of "Happy Birthday to You" to the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb...
...Devil and Miss Jones (RKO Radio). It is a jolt for any old-style tycoon with a jumpy stomach and a cracker-&-milk diet to pick up the morning paper and see that he has been hanged in effigy outside a big department store he can't recall owning. It is particularly hard for old John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), a bachelor so rich and powerful that his picture hasn't appeared in the newspapers for 20 years...
...groaned, long and low. That man was speaking again. Vag, forgetting all about it for a while, had enjoyed a period of almost blissful restfulness. Now he remembered with a jolt. A huge truck missed him by the width of a peeled-off coat of paint, and from the depths of Vag's subconcious mind came a memory. The memory of a huge Oxford-voiced professor booming forth from a platform--"No more dangerous than traffic in Harvard Square." Vag wondered. Could it be that there was more to this man than his eyebrows? One couldn't tell, but perhaps...
Many a U. S. taxpayer put his tax return in the mail last week, then rushed to the nearest bar to get a jolt of what P. G. Wodehouse has called "the stuff that restores the tissues." Taxes were steep; some citizens were paying the highest taxes in U. S. history, and to most of them it felt like it. But their morning newspapers assured them, in Washington dispatches that read as if they had been written by men who had also suffered deeply, that this was only the beginning...
Meanwhile Manhattanites, who were prepared to dismiss Frederick Stock's orchestra with kindly condescension, got the jolt of their symphonic season. Admitted the Post's Critic Samuel Chotzinoff: "In the balance between its choirs the Chicagoans conform to the best standards set by the country's major orchestras." Crowed Critic Thomson: "Mr. Stock won his audience ... as he has won audiences for 35 years, by playing them music very beautifully, not by wowing them." At last week's end, the traveling Philharmonikers were still on the road. But back in Manhattan worried directors were sadly pondering...