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...Valera quickly recovered from the shock he had received and was removed to Limerick jail and later to Dublin. At all times he was heavily guarded...
...occasion of honest sorrow in the hands of overambitious journalists is often capitalized for sentimental purposes to the point of hypocrisy and travesty. The death of President Harding was a shock to almost everyone. Mr. Harding was generally respected, if only in virtue of his position. It is no overstatement to say that there was genuine public sorrow at his sudden death brought about by the cares of office...
...heavy fellow, stands a foot or so above the Prince, but this disharmony in sizes has not prevented a cordial fellowship. This is quite in line with the none too staid disposition of the heir to the British crown, a disposition which is said to distress and shock the great decorum of the royalty, aristocracy, middle class and working class of England...
...poet tired of her. In 1900 he deserted, soon to publish a novel (Fire] revealing to the world their secrets in intimate detail. It later came to light that through it all he had been playing simply for literary material. The shock nearly brought about Duse's death. For two decades they were estranged...
...Jongg is used to settle many disputes and problems. More than one man has, by being careless with an East Wind, found himself sitting in solemn silence in the dull, dark dock of a pestilential prison with a lifelong lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock of a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block...