Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...show itself, great tribute was paid to the Carnegie Director of Fine Arts Homer Saint-Gaudens, distinguished-looking under his shock of grey hair and the burden of his sculptor father's great name. Assistant Director John O'Connor Jr. was the man who did most of the work. Despite the fact that it was primitively lighted and awkwardly arranged, the show was a top-notch survey of U. S. art, eclipsing even the fine one put on two summers ago by the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan...
Some day soon a Thurberesque suburbanite will come home more harried and pursued than usual, and have a shock. Arrived at his front door, he will notice that during the day his unpredictable spouse has had a large new flagstone laid there. It will not make him feel any better to see on the stone some huge three-toed tracks, a foot or more long. Nobody will have to tell him they are dinosaur tracks-his atavistic hackles will rise at the sight. Inside the house (if his wife has really been doing her stuff) he will be confronted with...
...England, began to permit themselves the luxury of domestic worries. But last week their attention was jerked back to a foreign crisis-this one across the Pacific. Businessmen in scores of trades from toys to machine tools wondered how badly their businesses would be hurt. By the time the shock of the headlines had passed, most of them were thinking that they would not be hurt badly...
...arms are so great that, without taking into account the Dominions' contribution, 'Come the three corners of the world in arms and we shall shock them...
...biggest ever with seats up to seven inches wider. Seven super de luxe, five de luxe V-8s are now on view with a six still rumored for early introduction. They have a 22% increase in sedan glass area, electrically operated convertible tops, longer, more flexible springs and improved shock absorbers. Prices...