Word: fright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upton Sinclair once wrote: "When a man dies after three days without food, he dies of fright, not starvation. Unless that three days follows months of malnutrition and semi-starvation...
...safer. She studied in Berlin, got a contract with the Hamburg Opera where for many months she did bit parts, studying the big roles by herself. One day the prima donna who was to sing in Lohengrin suddenly fell ill and Lotte Lehmann took her place. In her fright she forgot all the hidebound traditions, the routine gestures. But she was so young and unaffected, her voice so richly expressive, that the Hamburgers wanted to hear her in other big parts. She was singing Micaela in Carmen one night while the Vienna Opera director sat in the audience...
...which suggested Diaghilev. He was found one day walking the streets with a great cross on his chest, exhorting the villagers to seek God. His last dance was for a society function. He made a cross on the floor, danced with such fury that the audience sat frozen with fright. Diaghilev visited him once after that, wept and said: "It is my fault, what shall I do?" Madame Nijinskaya ends her book with the prayer she said when she first saw Nijinsky dance. There follows a list of people who have stood by him through his illness. There are only...
Last week in a Springfield schoolroom officers found the boy. His name was Cecil Kiper and he was ten years old. Sullen with fright, he denied knowing anything about the fire until taken before Governor Horner, who used to be a juvenile court judge. There Cecil Kiper told how he had filled a bag with shavings, weighted it with solder, lighted it, thrown it on the armory stage...
...kept his hat down over his eyes and his coat collar up so nobody would recognize him, prematurely set up a hue-and-cry for the kidnappers who had held him 22 days. Safe in his father's home he told a piteous tale of beatings, confinement and fright, then collapsed sobbing...