In 1920, as the startling news that the 1919 White Sox had conspired to lose the World Series leaked out, fans grew disillusioned and disinterested in baseball.

Free elections were a startling, and not altogether welcome, innovation for ordinary Paraguayans, who had always allied themselves with a patrón ( benefactor ) for security and protection.

Although startling when constructed, the glass and steel tower ( indeed many idioms of the modern movement ) had by the 1960s become commonplace the world over.

In a rather startling development for a comic strip at the time, Whitey and his new bride died in a car crash on their honeymoon, leaving Dondi to Mrs. McGowan, who had initially resented the boy, but came to love him and accept him as her grandson.

" Alexis ' testimony nonwithstanding, Krystle is immediately put off by the former Mrs. Carrington's condescending attitude and manipulations ; Krystle's subsequent discovery that Alexis had caused Krystle's miscarriage by intentionally startling her horse with a gunshot settles Alexis as Krystle's implacable nemesis.

One of his lesser known works presents a startling claim, that the Last Judgment had begun in the previous year ( 1757 ) and was completed by the end of that year and that he had witnessed the whole thing.

Neckam does not seem to think of this as a startling novelty: he merely records what had apparently become the regular practice of many seamen of the Catholic world.

In a startling development, the local financial backers announced they were keeping the franchise and had bought the winning, but financially troubled, Duluth Kelleys.

Artistic and a keen gardener, she had enlarged images of her startling blue-green eyes painted on the ceiling of the main portico of Blenheim Palace, where they remain today.

He made some substantial scores, including 86 runs in his first match for the Club and Ground, but according to Hobbs ' biographer, Leo McKinstry, " Just as he had done for much of his early life, performed satisfactorily without doing anything startling ".

The rebellion had a startling effect on Lenin, because the Kronstadt sailors were considered by the Bolsheviks as the " reddest of the reds ".

Helen had had the feeling that something was wrong when Cora had made her startling statement, but took some days and a timely conversation among the young cousins to realize precisely what it was.

This was unusual: Jefferson had given Wilkinson a startling amount of power and authority.

It was filmed almost entirely on location on filmstock ( which gave it a startling degree of realism ), and had a heavy bias toward action sequences.

This approach had a startling impact at the time in demonstrating the depth and variety of misreadings to be expected of otherwise intelligent college students as well as the population at large.

Quentin soon begins to be troubled by startling visions and haunting dreams about one of his ancestors, Charles Collins, and his ancestor's mistress Angelique, who had been hanged as a witch in a past century.

Although The Eyre Affair was Fforde's first novel, and he had amassed 76 rejection slips from publishers for several earlier novels, the book was generally acclaimed, with critics calling it " playfully irreverent ," " delightfully daft ," " whoppingly imaginative ," and " a work of ... startling originality ".

Phlox makes this startling discovery only after Sim's genesis ; previously, Phlox had calculated that the procedure wouldn't interfere with Sim's lifespan.

When the startling news broke in 1980 that Czechoslovakia player of the year, Peter Šťastný, and his brother Anton, had defected to Canada to play with the Quebec Nordiques, it represented a watershed moment in professional hockey as one of the first major stars of Eastern bloc hockey to join the NHL.

Critical opinion of the band was mostly positive: Brian Olewnick described their self-titled debut album as " an extraordinary debut [...] the three musicians exhibited startling originality and impressive technique both on their instruments and in the depth and style of their compositions "; while Piero Scaruff writes, " The ugly geometry of its mini-rock symphonies had few precedents in popular music ...

With Jouvet as Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Suzanne Bing as Viola, Blanche Albane as Olivia, and Romain Bouquet as Sir Toby Belch, in a startling simple stage setting, the play called upon the audience's imagination in a way that had not been seen on a Paris stage since Paul Fort, an earlier reformer who had worked in the theatre in the 1890s.

but, as he had a special fondness for magic and divination, he ordered that books on these subjects should be spared.

Alcaeus rarely used metaphor or simile and yet he had a fondness for the allegory of the storm-tossed ship of state.

He had a fondness for crafting his own words whenever rhyming words did not exist, though admitting that crafting rhymes was not always the easiest task.

Already during his governorship Paulinus had developed a fondness for the 3rd century martyr Saint Felix of Nola.

* In Life of Henry Clay, Carl Schurz notes that “ his fondness for card-playing, which, although in his early years he had given up games of chance, still led him to squander but too much time upon whist .”

Specific influences varied: Blur and Oasis drew from The Kinks and The Beatles, respectively, while Elastica had a fondness for arty punk rock.

Before the contest, Oebares rubbed his hand over the genitals of a mare that Darius's horse had a fondness for.

As a person, Gustav was known for ruthless methods and a bad temper, but also a fondness for music and had a certain sly wit and ability to outmaneuver and annihilate his political opponents.

Schindler continues with reference to Beethoven's fondness for Clementi's piano sonatas: " For these he had the greatest preference and placed them in the front rank of pieces appropriate to the development of fine piano playing, as much for their lovely, pleasing, fresh melodies as for the well knit, fluent forms of all the movements.

They held opposing political views and had very different temperaments, but he liked her as a fellow non-conformist, and she had a fondness for writers in general.

When interviewed about Woodstock by Jeff Tamarkin in 1992, Paul Kantner still recalled it with fondness, whereas Grace Slick and Spencer Dryden had less than rosy memories.

Students who studied under Childe often remarked that he was a kindly eccentric, but had a great deal of fondness for him, leading them to commission a bust of him from Marjorie Maitland-Howard.

Gorey was noted for his fondness for ballet ( for many years, he religiously attended all performances of the New York City Ballet ), fur coats, tennis shoes, and cats, of which he had many.

Although Gorey's books were popular with children, he did not associate with children much and had no particular fondness for them.

In 1900, a decade after the death of his multimillionaire father Junius Morgan, JP Morgan had already gained a fondness for the sport and was made an honorary member.

In his 1991 autobiography Wouldn't It Be Nice, Wilson gives his first impressions of Parks being " a skinny kid with a unique perspective ", and that he " had a fondness for amphetamines " at the time.

While Victoria had shunned society, Edward was the leader of a fashionable elite that set a style influenced by the art and fashions of Continental Europe — perhaps because of the King's fondness for travel.

As producer of I've Got a Secret, which was broadcast live, he showed a fondness for large scale stunts that had the potential to teeter on the brink of disaster.

His attitude towards the myths, which he claims to have preserved in their simple form ( hence probably his nickname, Old Ragwoman, or " collector of old wives ' tales ", an allusion to his fondness for trivial details ), is preferable to the rationalistic interpretation under which it had become the fashion to disguise them.

Early indications of Musset's boyhood talents were seen by his fondness for acting impromptu mini-plays based upon episodes from old romance stories he had read.

Bunk's work in the 1940s show why he was well regarded by his fellow musicians — on his best days playing with great imagination, subtlety, and beauty — as well as suggesting why he had not achieved fame earlier, for he was unpredictable, temperamental, with a passive-aggressive streak and a fondness for drinking alcohol to the point of serious impairment.

This was adopted because the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia had a fondness for the actress who sang the song in the musical, which was playing in New Orleans at the time of the first Rex parade in 1872.

She expressed a fondness for the show's star, Elizabeth Montgomery, and said that she had enjoyed working with her.