Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...seen fit to bill "The Earl of Chicago" second to Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey in "Balalaika," it is the Robert Montgomery vehicle which makes the evening worth while. Bob forsakes his debonair Piccadilly Jim pose and goes to town with a portrayal of the shock effect of English upper class mores upon a typical Chicago, gangster...
...Japanese do not easily give up a notion once they get it in their heads. Last week they had quite a shock to discover that a 90-year-old notion was no longer true...
...Leonard Lockhart had been a soldier on the Western Front. One summer's day, after he saw every comrade in his platoon wiped out, he collapsed with "shell shock." Unlike most victims, he pulled himself together and soon returned to the trenches. But several times after the war, when faced by small crises, he completely lost his memory for a few hours...
...Second shock to the Army was being told by the Tokyo Government that the U. S. was doing absolutely nothing about renewing its trade treaty with Japan, which lapses next week. While this did not mean any immediate hardship, it did mean that at any moment the U. S. might declare an embargo which would stop 74% of the Army's war supplies. Last week Colonel Henry L. Stimson, who as Secretary of State (1929-33) constantly opposed Japanese ambitions, urged just such an embargo...
...pleaded that Stalin not completely hogtie U. S. Communists with Russian foreign policy. Concluded Gitlow: "Not only do I vote against the decision, but when I return to the United States, I will fight against it!" Followed a moment of heavy silence; then a low whewing whistle of collective shock...