Word: jolted
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...Carrillo in this play, now re-revived by Producer Murray Phillips, in which the hero, as head and heart of a modiste business, breaks a volume of English dialogue over an Italian tongue. After the old-fashioned pattern of all such plots, Lombardi must experience business failure and heart-jolt before he awakens to the fact that it is not the dazzling beauty of Phyllis Manning that he loves but the demure companionship of Norah Blake. A fashion show helps the entertainment, as does the popular admission charge. But most of the fun is supplied by Actor Carrillo himself...
...challenge" revival. "HellCat" confesses publicly. The half-baked atheism of "Hell-Cat's" only friend and roommate, Jim Lefferts, is no match for raw afflatus. Unwittingly the atheist supplies all that the convert needs for his "Call" and ordination. The Holy Spirit enters Elmer Gantry, in a timely jolt of Bourbon...
...discussion with a talk on "What Then, Shall We Do About I?" Professor Bode held that students were evolving a new conception of culture in social terms and colleges must be so organized that the transition from college to life becomes a natural process and is not a sudden jolt. College education should give the ability to think straight. A social sensitiveness, an ability to enter into the views of other men must be built up around this...
...plain that the wrecked Curtiss racer was invisible from above. Flyer Bettis eyed the downslope of the mountain and started creeping on his three good members, with a limp thing dragging over the windfalls. At clearings he would pull himself erect and hop along from tree to bush, every jolt costing him a groan. At seven o'clock by his watch he heard automobiles, and two hours later he came to a field's edge. Occasionally a car went by, but smashed jaws cannot shout...
...light two-wheeled carriage for a single horse, typically seating four persons, back to back. "Jaunt" originally referred to the prancing or "jaunting" of the horse, which makes a two-wheeled car jolt and tilt somewhat rakishly. By association the verb "to jaunt" came to mean the taking of a short pleasure ride...