Word: fright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case in London in 1921 gives Author Fort food for speculation. A load of coal took to exploding in the Frost family grates, hopped out, rolled across the floors, went through walls without leaving a trace behind. Flatirons and coal buckets danced. One of the Frost children died of fright. Thoroughly investigated by the police and others, the phenomena were never denied. About the same time there were violent explosions of British coal in France, Belgium, Switzerland. Author Fort calls attention to the fact that it was a period of violent oppression and bitterness in the British coal industry, suggests...
...Fright our approaching souls away...
...Mary Vorse turned over a shack on her wharf to the enterprise and someone named Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, a lank, bushy-headed fellow with no money but "a trunkful of plays," contributed to the second bill a one-acter called Bound East For Cardiff. Sick with stage fright, "Gene" O'Neill spoke a few lines as the mate. Lending a particularly happy atmospheric effect, under the feet of an audience of 30 lapped the restless...
...Fright...
...Chicago, a bandit held up Miss Kitty Enright, 52, robbed her of 42?. Miss Enright went to a friend's house, collapsed from fright, died...